About this Event
In this reading, poet and current Artist-in-Residence Taylor Johnson invites fellow DC-area-based writers Simon Shieh, Konstantin Kulakov, and Victoria Newton Ford to share new work. This reading will be presented alongside What Does a Poet Do?, a new drawing installation by Taylor Johnson in Nicholson's gallery.
About Taylor Johnson
Taylor Johnson is a poet and artist from Washington, DC. He is the author of Inheritance (Alice James Books, 2020), winner of the 2021 Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America, and named one of the best poetry collections of 2020 by The New York Times. 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 is the 2022 inaugural Poet-in-Residence at the Guggenheim Museum. www.thenicholsonproject.org/2022-taylor-johnson
About Simon Shieh
Simon Shieh is a Taiwanese American poet, essayist, and educator. His poems have been recognized with a 2021 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship and 2nd place in Narrative Magazine’s 30 Below Contest. Simon co-founded Spittoon Literary Magazine, which translates and publishes the best contemporary Chinese writers, and was shortlisted for the 2019 Young China Watcher of the Year award. He recently moved to Washington, D.C. from Beijing with his wife and their dog. A selection of his publications can be found at simonshieh.com.
About Victoria Newton Ford
Victoria Newton Ford is a poet from Memphis, Tennessee. She is a MacDowell and Lambda Literary Fellow, and her work has been supported by Tin House Summer Writers Workshop, the Vermont Studio Center, and The Hurston/Wright Writers Workshop. She earned her B.A. in English with a concentration in creative writing from the University of Pennsylvania. She is currently working on her first manuscript about Black mothers and their daughters, captivity, and haunting. www.victorianewtonford.com
About Konstantin Kulakov
Konstantin Kulakov (he/they) is a Russian-Moldovan-American poet born in Zaoksky, former Soviet Union. He is a recipient of the Greg Grummer Poetry Award, and between 2019 and 2021, served as Writing Fellow at the Jack Kerouac School. Their poems and translations appear in Spillway, Phoebe, Harvard Journal of African American Policy, and Loch Raven Review, among others. They hold an MFA in Creative Writing from Naropa University and edit Pocket Samovar magazine. www.konstantinkulakov.com
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Nicholson Project, 2310 Nicholson Street Southeast, Washington, United States
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