[1] He is the author of seven collections of poetry, most recently, Voodoo Libretto: New and Selected Poems (Etruscan Press, 2022).

[3] Seibles initially got involved in the poetry scene after he heard “Ego Tripping” by Nikki Giovanni as a young teen in the 1960’s.

Seibles believes that in order to be a successful poet, you have to find the edge between safety and danger in your writing.

Tim Seibles book, “Buffalo Head Solos”, published in 2004, takes a dive into some of his covenant pieces of work.

The line, “could only be regarded with agonizing wonder and thirst,” out of “Douglass, A Last Letter”, emphasizes the tone he is portraying in this poem.

His intended purpose for the creating of this poem was to humanize the people in history like him and what they had to go through compared to our modern day.

[8][9][10] Tim Seibles is the author of seven poetry collections, including Buffalo Head Solos published in 2004 and Fast Animal in 2012.