Arnold J. Kemp was raised in Boston. He is a graduate of Boston Latin School, Tufts University, and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. He now lives in San Francisco, where he works as an arts administrator. He has received several awards for his poetry, including one from the Academy of American Poets. His writing has appeared in Three Rivers Poetry Journal, AGNI, and Callaloo. A show of his visual art recently was held at the San Francisco African American Historical Society. (updated 1993)