Antuan Simmons, American poet, is a Wichita Falls native and entrepreneur. He has recently developed a t-shirt line that promotes literacy and is about to release his fourth book. His books are available on Kindle. A poet for 14 years, Antuan is an advocate for literacy and worries that books are losing relevancy in our society . This is what moved him to create his two popular shirt designs, “American Poet” and “Read”. When asked what made him want to get into poetry, Antuan answered that he was sitting at Hastings one day reading poetry and thought to himself, “I can write better than some of this”. He felt that he had the talent to write and he just started working on his writing skills. You can occasionally catch Antuan around Wichita Falls hosting a poetry event or performing a public reading of his personal poems. Antuan is looking to do more collaborations and will also be doing some joint reading performances with Ben the Poet, another talented local writer.
