Bob McNeil

Compositions on Compassion and Other Emotions

Bob McNeil is the 2023 Harlem Book Fair’s Poet Laureate. He is a writer, editor, and spoken word artist, and he served as editor and contributor for Lyrics of Mature Hearts (2020), and he is the author of Verses of Realness (2018), which Hal Sirowitz called “A fantastic trip through the mind of a poet who doesn’t flinch at the truth.” McNeil hails from Queens, New York, and currently lives in Connecticut.