Lullaby for the Grieving Author Event with Poet Ashley Jones

We first came to know Ashley M. Jones through her book Reparations Now! Hanif Abdurraqib let us know that Reparations Now was full of bursts with ancestors and homages...... So we were delighted to learning of this more personal work and delighted that she wants to share it with us in Detroit.

Everyone is welcome and poets are encouraged to join us for the poetry event.

There are free and book tickets at this link. Both books are available in store with us. The event will included a a rich discussion that may include poetry read aloud, Q & A session and a booksigning line.

With previous work hailed by the New York Times as “unflinching” and “piercing”, Ashley M. Jones’s Lullaby for the Grieving is her most personal collection to date.

In her fourth poetry collection, Jones studies the multifaceted nature of grief: the personal grief of losing her father, and the political grief tied to Black Southern identity. How does one find a path through the deep sorrow of losing a parent? What wonders of Blackness have to be suppressed to make way for "progress"?

Ashley M. Jones served as the first Black and youngest Poet Laureate of Alabama from 2022-2026. She is the author of three previous collections of poetry, including Reparations Now!, longlisted for the PEN Voelker Poetry Award. Jones and her work have been featured by Poetry, Good Morning America, the BBC, the New York Times and other publications. Jones holds an MFA in Poetry from Florida International University, and she is currently a PhD student in English at Old Dominion University. She is the founding director of the Magic City Poetry Festival in Birmingham, Alabama.

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