Her poetry and essays have appeared in Wildness, The Pitkin Review, Public Pool, and the Writer in the World. Simone John is a 2020 recipient of the Mass Cultural Council Fellowship in Poetry and the author of the poetry collection Testify (Octopus Books 2017) and the chapbook Collateral (Octopus Books 2016). At first the Black woman is a literal witness to. When asked to share about the origin of her collection of poems Testify, John replied: I think Testify’s evolution traces and locates Black women, visible and invisible, throughout the text. Your browser does not support the audio element. Sinitere asked a wide range of questions relating to both John’s work and Sandra Bland’s legacy. In this audio clip, John reads her poem Recessive Genes, Maternal and discusses how inheritance and the voices of her “Aunties” – both real relatives and figures from the Black literary canon – help shape her writing and creative practice. And so, how can I access some of that wisdom?” “Understanding that this is not the first crisis my community has had. Since the 2016 election, she had been considering how her ancestors navigated times of turmoil. Even before the pandemic, Simone John‘s (Poetry Fellow ’20) creative practice was headed in a direction that would serve her well during months of isolation and uncertainty.
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