Angelo Geter

Angelo Geter is an award-winning poet, educator, and teaching artist currently serving as the Poet Laureate of Rock Hill,SC. His work touches on a variety of issues including social justice, race, grief, character and manhood.Geter is a 2020 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow, National Poetry Slam champion, Rustbelt Regional Slam finalist, and Southern Fried Regional Poetry Slam finalist. He is a co-editor for the Kakalak Poetry & Art Anthology, serves on The Watering Hole Board of Directors and is the Founder and Director of the  One Word Poetry Festival. His critically acclaimed debut poetry collection More God Than Dead, was released through Muddy Ford Press in 2022.  His work has appeared on All Def Poetry, Button Poetry, the Academy of American Poets “Poem a Day” series, Thoughts on the Power of Goodness Anthology, and This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets, among others.