Excerpts from the submissions of JaxbyJax writers explore aspects of living life on the edge. See them all at POP: Popping Perceptions of Poverty.
JaxbyJax and POP: a Collaboration
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POP: Popping Perceptions of Poverty
Applicants to the JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival have had excerpts from their work selected by the curators of POP: Popping Perceptions of Poverty to grace the walls of the Maker Space at the Jacksonville Public Library downtown. The exhibit opens Wednesday, October 2nd.
Many thanks to Shawana Brooks and crew for their beautiful design work.
Tayve Neese to Read at JaxbyJax
JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival is thrilled to welcome Tayve Neese to read with us on Saturday, November 16th.
Tayve Neese’s work has appeared in journals and anthologies around the county and abroad, including The Paris Review, Comstock Review, Fourteen Hills, and Diode. She is longlisted for the 2019 University of Canberra Vice Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize in Australia. Her poems have been translated into Vietnamese, and Blood to Fruit, her full-length collection of poems, was published in 2015. Locust, her second collection of poems is forthcoming from Salmon Poetry in Ireland. She is Executive Editor of Trio House Press, and was interviewed by The Best American Poetry in 2018. A member of the Concord Poetry Center in Massachusetts, Neese currently resides on a barrier island in Fernandina Beach.
Tayve Neese’s work has appeared in journals and anthologies around the county and abroad, including The Paris Review, Comstock Review, Fourteen Hills, and Diode. She is longlisted for the 2019 University of Canberra Vice Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize in Australia. Her poems have been translated into Vietnamese, and Blood to Fruit, her full-length collection of poems, was published in 2015. Locust, her second collection of poems is forthcoming from Salmon Poetry in Ireland. She is Executive Editor of Trio House Press, and was interviewed by The Best American Poetry in 2018. A member of the Concord Poetry Center in Massachusetts, Neese currently resides on a barrier island in Fernandina Beach.
JaxbyJax Welcomes Iman Byfield
Iman Byfield is a poet, fiction writer, editor, and artist whose work has appeared in print and digital publications, including The Literateur, epigraph magazine, Tidal Basin Review, The Garland Court Review, and others. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Chicago State University and is a Callaloo Writing Workshop fellow, a Luminarts fellow, and is on the board of the Conjure Women Collective. Iman is from Chicago but has lived in Jacksonville, Fla., for five years where she works as an adjunct English professor and as a communications director for a local nonprofit.
JaxbyJax is thrilled to welcome Byfield as she reads with us on Saturday, November 16th. Check out the venues and times at JaxbyJax.com/event