Alabama State Poet Laureate Ashley Jones in Conversation

Co-presented with the Prince George's County Office of Human Rights

The 2022-2026 Alabama State Poet Laureate and Award-winning poet Ashley M. Jones discusses her work. She is the author of Magic City Gospel (Hub City Press 2017), dark / / thing (Pleiades Press 2019), and REPARATIONS NOW! (Hub City Press 2021). She is also the youngest and Alabama's first Black poet laureate.

Her poems and essays appear in or are forthcoming at CNN, POETRY, The Oxford American, Origins Journal, The Quarry by Split This Rock, Obsidian, and many others. She teaches Creative Writing at the Alabama School of Fine Arts and in the Low Residency MFA at Converse College. Jones co-directs PEN Birmingham, and she is the founding director of the Magic City Poetry Festival. She recently served as a guest editor for Poetry Magazine.