Jenario D. Morgan is a Black American Catholic poet and educator whose writing draws deeply from faith, family, history, identity, and the complexities of Black American life. Born June 6, 1961, in Detroit, Michigan, Morgan has spent his life cultivating a profound appreciation for education, culture, spirituality, and the power of language. A husband and father of a daughter and son, he brings the wisdom of family and lived experience to his literary works. Since 2017, Morgan has served as a teacher at Riley High School in South Bend, Indiana, where he works as an assistant within the History Department and helps guide students through the study of history and the human experience. His literary work extends that same intellectual and reflective spirit into poetry. He is the author of Black Nouns, a collection that examines identity, memory, spirituality, history, language, and consciousness through a distinctly personal poetic voice. Morgan's poetry treats words not merely as instruments of expression, but as vessels of cultural memory and spiritual inquiry. His work stands at the intersection of the Black American experience, Catholic imagination, historical consciousness, and the enduring search for meaning. Through both his teaching and his poetry, Jenario D. Morgan continues to affirm the transformative power of education, faith, and the written word. His poem "Black Wear", came from his thoughts of the physical prowess, resilience, endurance of Black People for the last 600 years. Jenario's poem "Black Excellence" was inspired by Black Inventors and Black Theologians and both of their contributions. His inspiration to write "MLK, destined to be", was by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's oration, activism, community organizing in America's Civil Rights Era.
