Ashley M. Jones presents REPARATIONS NOW!

5500 1st Avenue North,Birmingham AL 35212

10 September, 2021

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Join us to celebrate the release of REPARATIONS NOW! by Birmingham poet Ashley M. Jones. Thank You Books and DISCO are thrilled to co-host the launch of Ashley M. Jones's much-anticipated new collection of poetry REPARATIONS NOW! Ashley will read from her work and sign books afterward. Please note that masks will be required, capacity is limited, and that the event will take place at DISCO: 5500 First Avenue North. This event will also be live-streamed via the Magic City Facebook page. We cannot admit extra guests into the venue once all tickets have been sold. * Ashley M. Jones holds an MFA in Poetry from Florida International University, and she is the author of two previous collections: Magic City Gospel (Hub City Press 2017), dark / / thing (Pleiades Press 2019). Her poetry has earned several awards, including the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Award, the Silver Medal in the Independent Publishers Book Awards, the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize for Poetry, a Literature Fellowship from the Alabama State Council on the Arts, the Lucille Clifton Poetry Prize, and the Lucille Clifton Legacy Award. She was a finalist for the Ruth Lily Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship in 2020. Her poems and essays appear in or are forthcoming at CNN, POETRY, The Oxford American, Origins Journal, The Quarry by Split This Rock, Obsidian, and many others. She teaches Creative Writing at the Alabama School of Fine Arts and in the Low Residency MFA at Converse College. Jones co-directs PEN Birmingham, and she is the founding director of the Magic City Poetry Festival. She recently served as a guest editor for Poetry Magazine.