Sunday ZOOM January 12, 2025 Carolyn Joyner

Carolyn Joyner, a Washington, DC poet, uses contemporary and traditional form to examine life’s themes. Her work has been featured in various literary magazines and anthologies, among them, Revise the Psalm: Work Celebrating the Writing of Gwendolyn Brooks, Pleiades, Obsidian, Gathering Ground, Full Bleed, ArLiJo, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Plume Poetry 10, and Little Patuxent Review. She is a former WritersCorps instructor, volunteer poetry workshop leader for the DC Public Library and the River of Words community project, and has a Master of Arts degree in creative writing from The Johns Hopkins University. She is a Cave Canem and Hurston-Wright Foundation fellow, and has been awarded artist fellowship grants from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA).  Her debut collection, Imagine His Mother Witnessing, is forthcoming in 2025.