Ngoma Hill

Ngoma is a performance poet, multi-instrumentalist singer/songwriter, Artivist and paradigm shifter, who for over  fifty years has used culture as a tool to raise socio-political and spiritual consciousness through work that encourages critical thought.

A former member of Amiri Baraka’s “The Spirit House Movers and Players” and the contemporary freedom song duo “Serious Bizness,” Ngoma weaves poetry and song that raises contradictions and searches for a solution to a just and peaceful world.

Ngoma was the Prop Slam Winner of the 1997 National Poetry Slam Competition in Middletown, Connecticut, and has been published in African Voices Magazine, Long Shot Anthology, The Underwood Review, Signifyin’ Harlem Review, Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam anthology, Poems on the Road to Peace (Volumes 1, 2, and 3, Yale Press), and Let Loose On the World–Amiri Baraka at 75. Also, in the anthology The Understanding Between Foxes and Light (Great Weather for Media and New Rain & Blind Beggar Press 35th Anniversary Issue). He was featured in the PBS spoken word documentary The Apro-Poets with Allen Ginsberg. Ngoma was selected as the Beat Poet Laureate of New York for 2021 by the National Beat Poetry Foundation