Chris James
Chris James is an national award winning spoken word poet, TEDx speaker, playwright, educator and self published author. Chris is the creator of stage plays, Dear Black People and The Odds Against US. 2018 he was voted Best poet and Best author of the year in Arkansas at the Black and Gifted awards. Recently, AETN/PBS Television Networ.... more
Chris James is an national award winning spoken word poet, TEDx speaker, playwright, educator and self published author. Chris is the creator of stage plays, Dear Black People and The Odds Against US. 2018 he was voted Best poet and Best author of the year in Arkansas at the Black and Gifted awards. Recently, AETN/PBS Television Network began filming a documentary on the life of Chris James.
In 2016 He was featured on the front cover of Arkansas Times Newspaper for being one of Arkansas' top visionaries. Chris is a member of Foreign Tongues poetry slam team whom ranked 2nd place in the worlds second largest poetry competition in 2014. He is the founder of Arkansas' only poetry venue and second black owned gallery, The House of Art. As a teacher artist, Chris develops and facilitates art integrated poetry writing and performance workshops for K-12.
