The Afrofuturistic Pastoral Speculative Poetry Quarterly Reading Series with Jacqueline Johnson
Fri, Mar 25
|Live on Facebook Via Zoom
The Afrofuturistic Pastoral Speculative Poetry Quarterly Reading Series 2022 Free Live on Facebook Via Zoom all from 7 to 8 p.m. features Akua Lezli Hope with poet guests. The event includes reading of new speculative poetry and discussion of the afrofuturistic and the pastoral in the realm of spec
Time & Location
Mar 25, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT
Live on Facebook Via Zoom
About the Event
The Afrofuturistic Pastoral Speculative Poetry Quarterly Reading Series
2022 Free Live on Facebook Via Zoom all from 7 to 8 p.m. features Akua Lezli Hope with poet guests. The event includes reading of new speculative poetry and discussion of the afrofuturistic and the pastoral in the realm of speculative poetry.
Friday March 25 with poet, writer, editor and artist, Jacqueline Johnson
Jacqueline Johnson is a multidisciplinary artist who works in poetry and fiction as well as fiber arts. She is the author of A Woman’s Season (Main Street Rag, 2015) and A Gathering of Mother Tongues, winner of the Third Annual White Pine Press Poetry Prize. A Cave Canem fellow and recipient of awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Middle Atlantic Writers Association, she has taught poetry at Pine Manor College, the City University of New York, Poets House, Very Special Arts, Imani House, the Frederick Douglass Creative Arts Center and African Voices. Her writing has recently been published in Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era, About Place: Resistance and Resilience (which she also edited), Speculating Futures: Black Imagination and the Arts, and the Brooklyn Poets Anthology.