Qr HandOriginally published in the 1968 classic, Black Fire, an anthology of African American writing, edited by Amiri Baraka and Larry Neal, which has recently been reproduced by Black Classics Press. Q. R. Hand, Jr. moved to the SF Bay Area from NYC aboutthirty years ago. An original member of the Wordwind Chorus, a Bay Area quartet that has performed poetry with jazz for over twenty years. He was 2012 Recipient of the Pen Oakland Reginald Lockett Lifetime Achievement Award. Read More Read Less