Beautiful Black Books featuring Jennifer Bartell Boykin reading and in conversation with Tshaka Campbell!

Saturday, February 24, 11:00 a.m. PST
via ZOOM

Join Tshaka Campbell for the next installment of Beautiful Black Books with guest Jennifer Bartell Boykin!

BBB is recurring program featuring black writers in conversation followed by a Q&A. It is a vessel of exchange as we bring black writers to our communities and our communities to these writers to learn about their sources of inspiration.

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Jennifer Bartell Boykin is the Poet Laureate of the City of Columbia and is a high school English teacher. She has a BA in English Literature Creative Writing from Agnes Scott College and a MFA in Creative Writing-Poetry from the University of South Carolina. Her poetry and nonfiction has been published in various journals like Callaloo and Obsidian. Traveling Mercy (Finishing Line Press) is her debut book of poetry. Her second book of poetry, Only Believe (The Word Works), won the 2023 Hilary Tham Capital Collection Prize and is forthcoming in June 2024. A 2023 Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate Fellow, she currently studies Library and Information Science at the University of South Carolina to become a school librarian.

Traveling Mercy | Finishing Line Press | Released November 17, 2023.

Finishing Line Press (paperback): https://www.finishinglinepress.com/.../traveling-mercy.../
Amazon (paperback): https://a.co/d/ceW4Mvs
Amazon (hardback): https://a.co/d/duM517v
Barnes & Noble (E-book): https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/traveling-mercy-jennifer-bartell/1144384492?ean=9781599242644&fbclid