Taylor Johnson in The Black Writer's Studio
Taylor Johnson is from Washington, D.C. and was a former participant in the Hurston/Wright Foundation's teen writing program in the early 2000's. Now, an award-winning poet, Taylor spoke with Dr. Ali-Coleman in November 2022 about his residency at the Guggenheim museum, his new appointment as the Poet Laureate of Takoma Park, MD and his poetry journey for this episode of the Black Writer's Studio.
Taylor Johnson is the author of Inheritance (Alice James Books, 2020), winner of the Norma Faber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America and named as a best poetry book of 2020 by the New York Times. Johnson has received fellowships from Cave Canem, Yaddo, the Nicholson Project, Callaloo, and the Conversation Literary Festival, among other organizations. He is the winner of the 2017 Larry Neal Writers’ Award from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, the 2021 Judith A. Markowitz Award for Exceptional New LGBTQ Writers from Lambda Literary, and a 2021 Pushcart Prize for his poem “Trans is against nostalgia.” His work appears in Poetry magazine, The Paris Review, and Scalawag, among other literary journals. Johnson is a student of the percussive architecture of go-go music.
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