Virtual Author Series: Jamaica Baldwin

Virtual Author Series: Jamaica Baldwin

7pm via Zoom
April 13, 2023

Celebrate National Poetry Month with the National Willa Cather Center! Poet Jamaica Baldwin will be on hand for a special poetry reading and discussion in anticipation of Bone Language, her brand new collection of poems. You can register for the event here.

Funding was provided by Humanities Nebraska and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment.

About the Author

Jamaica (she/her) is a poet and educator originally from Santa Cruz, CA. Her first book, Bone Language, will be published by YesYes Books in April 2023. Her work has appeared in Guernica, World Literature Today, The Adroit Journal, Prairie Schooner, Poetry Northwest, and The Missouri Review, among others. Her accolades include a 2023 Pushcart Prize, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a RHINO Poetry editor's prize, a Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award, and the San Miguel de Allende Writer's Conference Contest Poetry Award.

Jamaica has also served as a community based teaching artist with Writers in the Schools - Seattle, Louder Than a Bomb - Great Plains, an affiliate of Nebraska Writers Collective, and taught a generative writing workshop for women in Guatemala. Her writing has been supported by Aspen Words, Storyknife, Hedgebrook, Furious Flower, and the Jack Straw Writers program. Jamaica is currently the associate editor of Prairie Schooner at the University of Nebraska -Lincoln where she is pursuing her PhD in English with a focus on poetry and Women's and Gender Studies.