Brian Gilmore is a poet, writer, and columnist with the Progressive Media Project. He is the author of three collections of poetry, elvis presley is alive and well and living in harlem, Jungle Nights and Soda Fountain Rags: Poem for Duke Ellington, and We Didn’t Know Any Gangsters.
His poems and writings are widely published and have appeared in the Progressive, The Washington Post, the Baltimore Sun, The Sugar House Review, and Jubilat.
Currently, he teaches law at the MIchigan State University College of Law. He divides his time between Michigan and his beloved birthplace, Washington D.C