Well Played

Beau Sia was born in Toledo, Ohio, raised in Oklahoma City, OK, and is the son of Chinese immigrants from the Philippines. He is a Tony Award winning poet, the author of The Undisputed Greatest Writer Of All Time, and is featured on all seasons of HBO’s Def Poetry. His work has been to harness the power of poetry in his life beyond what is possible with poems.

"The poetry in Beau Sia's Well Played are fearless, hard-hitting, uncompromising. His own unflinching self-reflection on race, colonialism, assimilation, representation, white supremacy, identity is a ever-shifting kaleidoscope of words, timelines, and layers of being that spin into something like a survival guide, a trickster's song, a call to action, an incantation for a kinder and more just world." —Yumi Sakugawa, author of Your Illustrated Guide to Becoming One with the Universe