The English Department Reading Series: Taylor Johnson
Poetry Reading
Location
Library and Gallery, Albin O. Kuhn : Gallery
Date & Time
March 6, 2024, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Description
The
English Department Reading Series will feature poet Taylor Johnson for the 2023/2024 series. The event is free and will
feature books for sale with a signing and refreshments to follow.
Taylor Johnson is the author of Inheritance (Alice James
Books, 2020), winner of the 2021 Norma Farber First Book Award from the
Poetry Society of America. His work appears in Poetry Magazine, The Paris Review, The Baffler, Scalawag,
and elsewhere. Johnson is a Cave Canem graduate fellow and a recipient
of the 2017 Larry Neal Writers’ Award from the DC Commission on the Arts
and Humanities, and the 2021 Judith A. Markowitz Award for Emerging
Writers from Lambda Literary. Taylor was the inaugural 2022
Poet-in-Residence at the Guggenheim Museum. He is the Poet Laureate of
Takoma Park, Maryland.
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