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Khary H.Tolliver (born December 17, 1972), in Bronx, New York[1] is an African American poet and actor.

Khary was the first born of two. He was raised by a single, middle-class working mother from the Bronx. He was raised by his mother, grand mother and great grand mother. After both his grand and great grand mother passed his mother (Elizabeth Tolliver) moved him and his sister (Kisha) to Bridgeport, CT. Then in the late ‘80s they moved to Maryland. He started writing poems in 1991 as an assignment for an English class, then he continued on to use poetry as an emotional outlet. He's written almost a thousand poems. Khary CEO of L.O.P (LIGHTS OFF PRODUCTIONS) has published four books of poems. His first book published May 22, 2006 was "POEMS FROM KHARY'S POEM JOURNAL" which he says was filled with very dark poems, due to the strife that was in his life at that time, he was also disappointed in the quality of the book. The book was released by his publisher unedited. His second book "MORE POEMS FROM KHARY'S POEM JOURNAL" released Oct 5, 2007 was more lively or colorful as he expressed more of his thoughts and feelings. Then Dec 7, 2008 he released his third book "LOVE ALWAYS", and on Dec 13, 2013 "THIS BEAUTIFUL LOVE". Both books filled with love poems only, because of the attention he received form the few love poems he had in his his previous two books. Khary also has also done some work in film such as being an extra in the movie Ghosts of Hamilton Street Starring Scott Graham, Zak Jeffries and Kristin Carter in 2007, that was filmed in Baltimore MD. Then he played a lookout guy on an episode of the HBO drama series "THE WIRE", then he stared in one of the many Cash point commercials in 2008. In 2013 he was in one of the Maryland health care commercials and print ads for it as well, also in 2013 he was an extra in an episode of the HBO series VEEP which stared Julia Louis-Dreyfus. The episode aired early in 2014.