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Episode: Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents T.A. Niles
Description: T. A. Niles was a seed planted in the Caribbean soil of Trinidad & Tobago on the cusp of the transformational 60s. He was watered and fertilized in the gardens of Brooklyn, New York, and Hartford, Connecticut throughout most of the bell-bottomed era of the 70s. He was forged in trials by fire in the US Marine Corps in the late 70s thru the early 80s, budded and bloomed in academia in the 80s and 90s, before his withering began at the turn of the 21st century.Β
T. A. is officially retired-although heβs every bit as busy as he was bef...