Jasmine Mans

Biography

Jasmine Mans is an American poet and performance artist from Newark, New Jersey. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison with a degree in African American Studies and developed her craft as a member of The Strivers Row Poetry Collective, a Newark-based spoken word group. She gained wide attention in 2015 when a video of her performing "Footnotes for Kanye" went viral. Her debut poetry collection, Chalk Outlines of Snow Angels, was published in 2012. Her second collection, Black G...