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Antwian M. Crawford was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, but he spent most of his life in Radford, Virginia, which is the place that he grew up. He now resides in South Florida, where he has been living since 1993, after moving down from Newton, North Carolina. By day, he's an Architectural Designer/CAD Systems Operator for an Architectural Firm in South Florida but, as you can tell, he likes to read and write poetry in his spare time under the pen name of Intellect. "I use poetry as one of many ways to express myself," he says, "Because it has no boundaries around my creativity". He goes on to say, "If I had to describe my poetry, I would have to say that it is a mixture of rhyming techniques and philosophical thoughts". Other forms of poetry that he writes include Haiku, Linked Verse, Quatrain, Monorhyme and Acrostic Poetry. Antwian has been writing for 18 years and has been writing poetry for 11. Look for many more books written by this talented young author in the future.
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His writings can currently be seen on TimBookTu.com, in which he was the
Featured Writer of the Month (November 2000) and one of the many featured poets in the TimBookTu Anthology called Journey to TimBookTu: An African-American Poetic Odyssey that made it's debut in the later part of 2001. His writings can also be seen on Wordsport.com, in which he was the Poet of The Month (April 2001), Def Poetry Jam Web Site, for winning the contest for the month of May 2001, The Dream Chaser Poets Society (DCPS), winning the contest for the month of January 2002 and PoeticallySpeaking.net, in which he is the Guest Poet for Black History Month (February 2002). Antwian was also Director of Poetry for Awareness Magazine for 2 years as well. Most recently Intellect was selected as Featured Guest Artist/Poet of the Month for the month of July 2005 at The Black Poetry Cafe, He was also selected as Poet of the Month for July by my poetic peers at NubianPoets.com and finally he was delighted to find out that he won the Slam Idol Podcast - Contest #3 based in London, England.
Mr. Crawford is also the Webmaster of an award winning poetry website called The Underground Poets Society and the Head Administrator of The Un.P.S. On-Line Open Mic.
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Antwian is also working on his next project, The Underground Poet's Society Anthology. For more information on the anthology or if you have any questions, feel free to contact him by sending an e-mail to twian28@yahoo.com or intellect@theunps.com. The Underground Poets Society Anthology is also currently being discussed in The Un.P.S. On-Line Open Mic as well, so if you have any questions or want to voice your opinion, feel free to do it there. Also because this is a joint venture, your input is welcome, for those poets and writers who would like to be a part of this project.
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