Women Writers of the Diaspora presents Jacqueline Johnson

Women Writers of the Diaspora

Presents JACQUELINE JOHNSON

Thursday, September 17, 6:00-7:30 pm

Calabar Imports Harlem

2504 Frederick Douglass Blvd. (at 134^th St.)

Harlem, NY 10030

Jacqueline Johnson,  award-winning author of A Woman’s Season (Main Street Rag) and A Gathering of Mother Tongues (White Pine Press), will read and discuss her writings at Calabar Imports Harlem (corner of 134^th Street & Frederick Douglass Blvd). 

Ms. Johnson is a Cave Canem fellow and winner of the Third Annual White Pine Press Poetry Award.  She has also received awards from the New York Foundation of the Arts, the Mid-Atlantic Writers Association, and the MacDowell Colony for the Arts. She has taught poetry at Pine Manor College, Poets House, Very Special Arts, Imani House, the Frederick Douglass Creative Arts Center, and African Voices.   

She has been published by Word Peace Journal, The Wide Shore: A Journal of Global Women’s Poetry; Fifth Wednesday Journal; Black Renaissance Noir; pluck! The Journal of Affrilachian Arts & Culture, “Cutting Down the Wrath Bearing Tree,” Callaloo: The Politics Issue; Johns Hopkins Press; Tempu Tupu, African American Women’s Poetry; African World Press; Saints of Hysteria: A Half Century of Collaborative American Poetry; Softskull Press; Streetlight: Illuminating Tale of the Urban Black Experience, and Viking Penguin.

She has previously read at Pratt Institute, Poetry Society of America, Creative Time, NuYorican Poets Café, New York University, Studio Museum in Harlem, Metropolitan Museum, and the Pan African Literary Forum in Accra, Ghana.

Ms. Johnson, a native Philadelphian who now resides in Brooklyn, is a graduate of New York University and the City University of New York.  She is currently working on a novel, The Privilege of Memory, and a collection of short stories, Songs of Ikari.

Women Writers of the Diaspora, created and moderated by Celesti Colds Fechter, Owner/Exec. Director of Education Success Services, is a 13-year-old series that highlights writing by African and African Diasporan women.  

Space is limited.  Please RSVP at womenwritersofdiaspora@gmail.com