Blackbird Fall 2007  Vol. 6 No. 2

POETRY

Chris Abani
Victoria Chang
Michael Chitwood
Keith Ekiss
Gibson Fay-LeBlanc
Beth Ann Fennelly
Raza Ali Hasan
James Hoch
Cyan James
Julia Johnson
Larry Levis
Khaled Mattawa
Timothy O’Keefe
Catherine Pierce
Jon Pineda
John Poch
Austin Segrest
Louie Skipper
Ron Smith
Robert Thomas
Joshua Weiner
Lesley Wheeler
Charles Wright

Julia JohnsonJULIA JOHNSON

Julia Johnson’s poems have appeared in Third Coast, Poetry International, 64, and The Greensboro Review. A New Orleans native who lives in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, she was a Henry Hoyns Fellow at the University of Virginia, where she earned an MFA in 1995. Her first book of poems, Naming the Afternoon (2002), was published by the Louisiana State University Press. Johnson also won the Fellowship of Southern Writers’ 2003 New Writing Award. She teaches writing at the University of Southern Mississippi.  

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