English Department Reading Series
The
English Department Reading Series will feature poet Taylor Johnson for the 2023/2024 series. This event is free and will
feature books for sale with a signing and refreshments to follow.
Taylor Johnson
Wednesday, March 6th
4pm-5pm
AOK Library Gallery
Wednesday, March 6th
4pm-5pm
AOK Library Gallery
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.