Alabama Poet Laureate Ashley Jones will discuss creativity and empathy during an open public session hosted by AUM’s Civil Rights & Civic Virtue Society as part of the May 8-9 “Out of the Box: Workshop on Teaching and Learning.”
Members of the campus community are invited to attend Jones’ presentation, “Imagine Us In Love With The World: How Poetry and Empathy Can Save Us All,” on Wednesday, May 8, at 4:30 p.m. in Goodwyn Hall 109.
Jones, who serves as associate director of UAB’s Honors Program, received a Poet Laureate Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets in 2022. She is the founding director of the Magic City Poetry Festival and a board member of the Alabama Writers Cooperative and the Alabama Writers Forum.
Her debut poetry collection, “Magic City Gospel,” was published by Hub City Press in 2017 and earned a silver medal in poetry at the 2017 Independent Publishers Book Awards. Her second book, “dark // thing,” won the 2018 Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize for Poetry from Pleiades Press.
Jones’ third collection was published in 2021.
