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Cheryl Boyce Taylor

1950–

United States

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Cheryl Allison Boyce-Taylor (born 6 December 1950) is a Trinidadian poet, teaching artist, and theatre performer who lives in Brooklyn, New York. Boyce-Taylor has published several full-length poetry monographs, including early works As A Woman I Laugh and Cry: Poems, Birthsounds, Rhythms and Other Contractions; five collections of poetry; and an award-winning verse memoir dedicated to her son. She is the mother of late Trinidadian-American hip-hop artiste Malik Izaak Taylor aka Phife Dawg of A Tribe Called Quest.

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