Fellow Travelers
I am on the other side
of your time, dearest fellow
travelers of the African diaspora.
With my black eyes, like Osiris,
Sylvain is a poet, writer, social and literary critic. Twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Published in several creative anthologies, journals, and reviews. Sylvain has degrees from the University of Massachusetts (B.A.), Harvard University (Ed.M.), and Boston University (MFA). Sylvain is on faculty at Brown University’s Africana Studies. He is also the Shirle Dorothy Robbins Creative Writing Prize Fellow at Brandeis University where he is a PhD candidate (ABD). Sylvain’s poetry chapbook, Underworlds, is published by Central Square Press (2018). Forthcoming book to be published by Beacon Press: Education Across Borders: Immigration, Race, and Identity in the Classroom.