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Blanche Armfield Poetry Series: Taylor Johnson September 10 @ 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm Dear Creative Writing, English and Comparative Literature Faculty, Graduate Students, Staff and Friends, Our Fall Blanche Armfield Poetry Series will feature Taylor Johnson on Thursday, September 10, in the Pleasants Family Assembly Room in Wilson Library from 3:30-4:30 pm. We ask that you please place this date on your syllabi and bring your classes to the reading. From Taylor Johnson’s website: Taylor Johnson is from Washington, DC. He is the author of Inheritance (Alice James Books, 2020), winner of the 2021 Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America and a 2024 Whiting Award. His work appears in Poetry Magazine, The Paris Review, The Baffler, Scalawag, and elsewhere. Johnson is a Cave Canem graduate fellow and a recipient of the 2017 Larry Neal Writers’ Award from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, and the 2021 Judith A. Markowitz Award for Emerging Writers from Lambda Literary. Taylor was the inaugural 2022 Poet-in-Residence at the Guggenheim Museum. From 2022-2025, he was the Poet Laureate of Takoma Park, Maryland. With his wife, Elizabeth Bryant, and the poet Simon Shieh, Taylor curated and founded the Green Way Reading Series at People’s Book in Takoma Park. Taylor is currently the 2025-2026 Hackerman Writer in Residence at the Enoch Pratt Free Library.