Posts from October 2021

October 20, 2021

Flying Into the Unpredictable: Publishing During a Pandemic

Best American Poetry Blog
Editor’s Note (October 19, 2021):

We checked in with J. Chester Johnson to find out how he’s fared over the course of the last 18 months with the publication of his timely Damaged Heritage.

Click here to read the article on the Best American Poetry web site.

October 4, 2021

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art: Remembering the Elaine Massacre

Here is the piece prepared by Crystal Bridges on the Elaine Race Massacre, including a link to an interview by National Public Radio with J. Chester Johnson, author of Damaged Heritage, and Dr. Kyle Miller, who lost four ancestors in the white attacks and who is executive director of the Arkansas Delta Cultural Center in Phillips County, Arkansas, site of the Massacre.

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