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Jacqueline Johnson

   

Fellowships / Awards / Residencies

- Black Earth Institute, 2018-2025

- New York Foundation for the Arts, Artist Corps, 2023

- VONA / Voice of Our Nations, Fiction, 2018

- Brooklyn Public Library Artist Residency, 2018

- Govenor's Island Writing Residency 2018

- MacDowell Colony for the Arts 

- Cave Canem Foundation

- Hurston Wright Foundation

- Blue Mountain Arts Colony 

- New York Foundation of the Arts 

Publications/Books

A Woman's Season, Main Street Rag, North Carolina, 2015.

A Gathering of Mother Tongues, White Pine Press, Buffalo, N.Y., 1998.

Stokely Carmichael: Leaders in Civil Rights Movement, biography for children ages 10 and up, Simon and Schuster, 1990.

Selected Publications:  Anthologies, Journals, Websites

The Evergreen Review, Oracle Series III and Other poems, 2025. Online at:  https://evergreenreview.com/read/oracle-series-iii-and-other-poems/

This Is the Honey:  An Anthology of Contemporary Poets, edited by Kwame Alexander, Little Brown, 2024.

Dear Yusef:  Essays, Letters, and Poems, For and About One Mr. Kommunyakaa, edited by John Murillo & Nicole Sealey, Wesleyan Press, 2024.

Baby Suggs and A Purple Butterfly, edited by Sherese Francis, Get Fresh Books, 2024.

From the Belly: Poets Respond to Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons, Volume I, edited by Karren Aliener, Entwine, Word Works, Winter 2022.

 

Ocean State Review, Annunciation, Spring 2022, Volume II.

 

2021 Hopes, Fears, and Possibilities for the Year, March 11, 2021. Let Us Get Busy – Black Earth Institute.
 

Red Spring Part II:  Upheavals and Resistance, published Wild Child and This America,

Bill T. Jones and NY Live Arts  Red Spring Part II: Upheavals & Resistance - New York Live Arts — Google Arts & Culture

 

About Place Journal, Geographies of Justice issue, edited by Alexis Lathem, Ode to Iyansa, Spring 2021. Jacqueline Johnson – Geographies of Justice – About Place Journal

 

Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era, Routledge, Emily Ruth Rutter, Tiffany Austin, Sequoia Maner, editors, March 2020.

Show Us Your Papers, "The Missing, Children of Tenochtitlan, Main Street Rag, editors Cherise Pollard and Wendy Pfaff, Fall 2020. 

The Slow Down, "On the D Train", curated by Tracy K. Smith, American Public Media, October 16, 2019.

 

Pank: Health and Healing Folio,"Love Like a Summer Rain," Maya Marshell, editor, October 2019.

Infinite Country: Deepening Our Connection to Place, Culture  and  One Another, "The Prairie Speaks," About Place Journal, Fall 2019, edited by Austin Smith.

About Place Journal, Volume V, Issue III “Dignity as an Endangered Species,” "Alaketu Mother Tongue," Spring 2018, edited by Pam Ushuck.

 

Brilliant Flames, Third World Press, editors: Sonia Sanchez, Woodie King, Michael Simanga, Haki Madhubuti, 2018.

Revise the Psalm: Work Celebrating the Writing of Gwendolyn Brooks, edited by Quraysh Ali Lansana      and Sandra Jackson Opoku, Curbside Splendor Publishing, Chicago, Illinois, 2017.

 

The Brooklyn Poets Anthology, ed. by Jason Koo & Joe Pan, Brooklyn, New York, 2017

 

Obsidian: Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora, Speculative Fiction Issue, Ed. Sheree Renee Thomas, Illinois State University, Normal Illinois, Winter 2017. 

 

The Word Peace Journal, University of Missouri, 2015.

 

The Wide Shore: Journal of Global Women's Poetry, published online May 2014.

 

Renaissance Noir, Summer Issue 2013, New York University, NY.

 

Pluck!, The Journal of Affrilachian Arts & Culture, University of Kentucky, Spring 2013.

 

African Voices, Summer Issue 2013, New York, NY.

35th Anniversary Issue, Blind Beggar Press, New York, NY. 2013.

 

Caribbean Erotic, Peepal Tree Press, UK, eds. Opal Palmer Adisha, Donna Weir-Soley 

Teaching Experience

Practices of Assemblage, Poets House. Online workshop, Summer 2023.

Bookmaking for Poets, Molloy College and Artists Studios, New York.  Facilitated six week workshop that focused on teaching techniques to compile and edit a poetry manuscript. 2020. 

Interactive Poetry Class, City University of New York, School of Professional Studies. Taught Poetry of Witness sessions, 9/2016-5/2017.

Dismantling Rage, Cultivating Peace, Women Writers in Bloom Salon, New York, 2015.

Bookmaking for Poets, African Voices, New York, April 17-May 29, 2012.  Through exercises, readings and discussions workshop participants explored the process of writing a poetry manuscript.  This was a hands-on workshop with special attention paid to editing and revision, manuscript review and compiling the poetry manuscript. 

What's Love Got To With It: The Japanese Somonka. Workshop for Women Writers In Bloom Poetry Salon, Brooklyn, NY, December 2012.  In this collaborative workshop participants learned both the Japanese Tanka and Somonka forms.

Poetic Narratives and Voice, Imani House, Brooklyn, 2010.  Through the use of guided prompts, feedback and weekly exercises students gain writing experience using various aspects of narrative voice.  Students were exposed to both classic and contemporary poetic narrative voices and strategies.

Poetry and Revision, Pine Manor College, MA, 2007.  This was a five-day intensive workshop.  Students explored various methods of revision using readings and prompts.  Students also looked at various ways to revise and compile the poetry manuscript.  Individual poems were critiqued by workshop participants and instructor.

Persona Poems Made Easy, Adelphi University, NY, Creative Writing Program, 2007.  Conducted several writing workshops for high school students. Through readings and prompts students learned how to create persona poems and generated new poems.

Panelist/Presentations

Split This Rock 2020, Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter, George Washington University.  Panel: Almas Khan, Sequoia Maner, darlene anita scott, Lisa Norris.

The Artivist Rises, African Voices, New York, May 1-31, 2015.  Panel with exhibition artists.

For My People:  A Tribute to Elizabeth Catlett and Margaret Walker, The Schomburg Center for Research and Black Culture, New York, N.Y.  February 2013.

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Selected Performances

St. Marks Poetry Project, Pratt Institute, Metropolitan Museum, Brooklyn Public Library, Barnard College, AWP-Vancouver, B.C., New York University, Schomburg Center for Research and Black Culture, Studio Museum in Harlem, Mad River Poetry Festival, Teachers and Writers Collaborative, Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage-Creative Time, Black Roots Festival, Manhattanville College, Barnes & Noble, Nuyorican Poets Café.

Works-in- Progress

"How to Stop a Hurricane", collection of short stories.

  “Glden Lady”, poetry manuscript.

“The Privilege of Memory”, novel manuscript. 

Education

City University of New York, M.A., Creative Writing: Poetry, 2000.  

New York University, B.S.W., Social Work/Communications, 1979.

Awards

White Pine Press Award, Third Annual Poetry Prize, Buffalo, N.Y., 1997.

New York Foundation for the Arts, Gregory Millard Fellow-Poetry, 1989.

Mid-Atlantic Writers Association, Creative Writing Award in Poetry, Morgan State 

University, Baltimore Maryland, 1987.

Finalist Awards

Main Street Rag Poetry Finalist for "A Woman's Season," North Carolina, 2014.

Willow Books Poetry Finalist for "A Woman's Season," Detroit, MI, 2013

Word Works Poetry Finalist for "A Woman's Season," Albany, New York 2012.

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