Amaud Jamaul Johnson Q&A on his writing process
Amaud Jamaul Johnson, a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford, and a Cave Canem Fellow, on his writing process.
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Amaud Jamaul Johnson Q&A on his first poem
Amaud Jamaul Johnson, a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford, and a Cave Canem Fellow, on his first poem
Amaud Jamaul Johnson Q&A on his early influences
Amaud Jamaul Johnson, a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford, and a Cave Canem Fellow, on his early influences
Inspiration
Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel. –Matthew 23:24. Sudden as the swoop of a swallow that lifts from grass at once: it comes, flash of white under-feathers in sun. You have to follow its path, watch the landing and […]
Hour of Dawn
Initially, we held ourselves in contempt because the light covered us with little tongues, made us conscious of the miniscule. We wore the evening¹s chime around our waists so when we turned, we were aware of ourselves and the music the day struck in time from our bodies. From our bodies we urged a story, […]
Heimweh
I used to think if I overcame this sadness I would have nothing left but particulars, a way of saying the word mountain, a habit of carting sweaters everywhere, and memories of the last day of winter, its bareness on the wind and white snow sailing over the green grass, burying it with such delicacy […]
Echolocation
Owl The Devil’s headlamp stalks the red cells in a mouse miles from itself—the yellow lens is resinous, fat, dense as pearl firming-up & renders its beam heavy with currents. Into a dustbowl of annihilation the rotating head seizes its empire of blood; a storm collapses each mouse bone as the threnody of rain crushes […]