The English Department Reading Series: Taylor Johnson
Poetry Reading
Location
Library and Gallery, Albin O. Kuhn
Date & Time
March 6, 2024, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Description
English Department Reading Series
The English Department Reading Series will feature poets Edgar Kunz and Taylor Johnson for the 2023/2024 series. Both events are free and will feature books for sale with a signing and refreshments to follow.
Taylor Johnson
Wednesday March 6
4pm-5pm
AOK Library Gallery
Wednesday March 6
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.