Otis Sprow - Contemporary Poet

Poetry Presentation hosted by the Episcopal Diocese of Northern California Commission for Intercultural Ministries and the Washington National Cathedral Racial Justice Initiative
The presentation will be available beginning Saturday, February 15 on the Washington National Cathedral YouTube channel.
Otis Sprow is from Baltimore and his work has been published in The Ekphrastic Review, Poets of Manor Mill, Artists from Maryland and POEMS, his own self-published book which is available through Amazon.Learn more about Otis and his poetry on his Facebook page .
He has been a featured poet on several occasions for the Short Story Book Fest and various unique events in the Baltimore area. Additionally, he served as the featured poet for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's Secretary's Award program in 2022.
Educated in the Baltimore City public school system, he attended Cornell University receiving BS and MS degrees in Mechanical Engineering. Subsequently, he received an MBA (Finance) from George Washington University.
Residing in Pikesville, he writes his free verse poems with the intent that the reader/listener “get to know me a little better and have the space between you and I melt.”
His poem For the Desires of Gordon, with Respect, will be featured in the presentation. In it Sprow conveys the resilience, courage, and resourcefulness of a slave who after a near fatal beating escaped and joined the Union Army. His story was captured in an iconic photo that jarred the nation and exposed the true horror of slavery to the general population.
For more information please contact:
Bob Wohlsen at [email protected]
Jayne Osgood at [email protected]
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