Mbembe Milton Smith

American poet, born in 1946 in Kansas City, MO, took his life at the age of 36 in 1982. He is the author of the posthumous collection, Mbembe: Selected Poems (BkMk Press, 2006). Before his untimely death he published four books of poems: To Go On, Allegory of the Bebop Walk, Playing Side Two, and Consolation Prizes. His poems appeared widely in newspapers and magazines. Anthologies were beginning to pick up his work. He taught at Rockhurst College, Fordham University, and in the City University of New York system.