Her poetry has earned several awards, including the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Award, the Silver Medal in the Independent Publishers Book Awards, the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize for Poetry, a Literature Fellowship from the Alabama State Council on the Arts, the Lucille Clifton Poetry Prize, and the Lucille Clifton Legacy Award. Jones holds an MFA in Poetry from Florida International University, and she is the author of Magic City Gospel and dark / / thing. Reparations Now! will publish in the fall of 2021.Īshley M. Since then, Jones was awarded the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize for Poetry for her book dark / / thing, selected by Marcus Wicker. Hub City Press published Jones’s poetry debut, Magic City Gospel, in January 2017. The poems are investigations of reparations both personal and cultural, an exploration of those the United States of America might owe to oppressed and colonized people, but also small reparations - little things stolen and worth reclaiming. Jones’s third book of poetry, titled Reparations Now! Hub City Press is pleased to announce plans for publication of Ashley M.
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