Such a wonderful event last night! Full video and educational resources will be available from PEN soon—

I’m so thrilled to represent Alabama in this way! I’m honored and ready to get this project started! Thanks to the Alabama Writers' Forum for their support as we move ahead!

Congratulations to @ALPoetLaureate and J. Drew Lanham, two of the 22 Poet Laureate Fellows who were awarded $50,000 each by Academy of American Poets! We could not be more excited to see what Ashley and Drew will do next.

This is great for the #arts and #humanities in Alabama. Congratulations and thanks to @ALPoetLaureate and Alabama Writers' Forum!

What you call waste, I call power. What you call work I make beautiful again. —Ashley M. Jones @ALPoetLaureate, 2022 Poet Laureate Fellow poets.org/poem/photosynt…

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Join PEN America Bham Chapter in its new BIRMINGHAM READS initiative, featuring Imani Perry! Learn more and register for our kickoff event at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute next Friday! It's a celebration! pen.org/event/birmingh…

Join us Thursday at the Birmingham Public Library for an honest and candid conversation on adultification bias and the fragility of Black childhood. Learn more: bplolinenews.blogspot.com/2022/08/Meet-T… #GranteeSpotlight #ALhumanities #bgwbg

Thrilled to have been awarded an Honorable Mention by @ALPoetLaureate for the SRPR 🥄 2022 Editor’s Prize! I hold my “Venus de Milo with Drawers” series very close to my heart and I look forward to sharing this lil breakup poem in SRPR’s Winter 2022 issue!

Announcing my Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate Project: Alabama Poetry Delegation! Read details at the link below, and share widely! Applications due by 12/31. This is a leadership and service opportunity for poets all over Alabama. magiccitypoetryfestival.org/alabama-poetry…

This is a great opportunity for Alabama poets!

Alabama's poet laureate Ashley Jones (@ALPoetLaureate) has announced the creation of the Alabama Poetry Delegation, an initiative that will support poetry projects from five poets around the state. al.com/life/2022/10/s…

"I truly believe poetry is for everybody." Congrats to @ALPoetLaureate Ashley M. Jones on the launch of the Alabama Poetry Delegation! al.com/life/2022/10/s…

We’re highlighting our Black authors every week in Black History Month. Sharing some poems with y’all on this very sunny Monday! Check out @ALPoetLaureate J. Drew Lanham Marlanda Dekine and our 2011 anthology edited by Kwame Dawes at hubcity.org/poetry.

I'm excited to share the debut issue of Hammer & Hope ! My poem, "Home: Variations" is the first article in this first issue, and it is a ghazal written after a photograph by Carrie Mae Weems. So, I suppose, it's an ekphrastic ghazal! hammerandhope.org

Listen to the newest episode of Poetry Off the Shelf from Poetry Foundation featuring @ALPoetLaureate and Rebecca Gayle Howell discussing What Things Cost: an anthology for the people. Listen here: bit.ly/3GUo3Mh & order your copy today (link in bio)

Just a little bit of the amazing Ashley Jones @ALPoetLaureate from her gorgeous poem Photosynthesis, from Leaning Toward Light, in a poem that talks about infant buds and dark soil – a garden where “even problems become energy, beauty–” #leaningtowardlight Storey Publishing

I’m the header quote today at Academy of American Poets !!!! What joy!

Happy to nab anything at all for Hub City Press , and so thrilled to be on this season of The A List! Full episode coming soon!

TYB x Birmingham Public Library event with Victor Luck, author of BUILT FROM THE FIRE, in conversation with @ALPoetLaureate on June 22nd at 6 pm at the Central Branch of the B’ham Public Library! This event is free & open to all, but please register here: eventbrite.com/e/victor-lucke…