Amanda Johnston

DATE TBA

Price: $140

This workshop will explore the power of prose poetry. We will study examples from Claudia Rankine’s award-winning book, Citizen: An American Lyric, Invisible Bride by Tony Tost, winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, and other examples of innovative poetics stretching the parameters of prose. Participants will draft original prose poems and be supported through the revision process over two consecutive Saturdays.

Included with your Registration fee is one of Johnston’s books.

Amanda Johnston earned a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of Southern Maine. She is the author of two chapbooks, GUAP and Lock & Key, and the full-length collection Another Way to Say Enter. Her work has appeared in numerous online and print publications, among them, Callaloo, Poetry Magazine, Puerto del Sol, Muzzle, and the anthologies, Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry and Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism. She has received fellowships, grants, and awards from Cave Canem Foundation, Hedgebrook, the Kentucky Foundation for Women, The Watermill Center, Tasajillo, and the Austin International Poetry Festival. Named one of Blavity’s "13 Black Poets You Should Know," Amanda’s work has been featured on Bill Moyers, the Poetry Society of America’s series In Their Own Words, and the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day series. She is a member of the Affrilachian Poets, cofounder of Black Poets Speak Out, and founder/executive director of Torch Literary Arts – a nonprofit organization that publishes and promotes Black women writers. Find her online at AmandaJohnston.com and @amejohnston on Twitter.