Jaamil Olawale Kosoko, a 2011 Fellowship recipient at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and a certificate candidate at the Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance (ICPP) at Wesleyan University, is a visual designer, poet, and performance artist. He has been published in The American Poetry Review, Poems Against War, The Dunes Review, and Silo, among other publications. He has been a guest artist at various universities and high schools throughout the United States. Most recently, Kosoko published Notes on an Urban Kill-Floor: Poems for Detroit.
Kosoko's work in devised visual performance has been presented by The Philadelphia Live Arts Festival, The Kelly Strayhorn Theater, Joyce SoHo, Dixon Place, Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace at St. Mark's Church, the CEC Meeting House Theater, Painted Bride Arts Center, among others. He has created original roles in work of anonymous bodies, Pig Iron Theatre Company, Keely Garfield Dance, Miguel Gutierrez and The Powerful People, and Headlong Dance Theater. Visit www.philadiction.org for details.
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