“The Town Crier,” Raymond Nat Turner, is a NYC poet privileged to have read at the Harriet Tubman Centennial Symposium. He's Poet-in-Residence at Black Agenda Report and Artistic Director of the stalwart JazzPoetry ensemble, UpSurge!NYC, which has appeared at numerous festivals and venues including the Monterey Jazz Festival and Panafest in Ghana, West Africa.