ONLINE: Amaud Johnson, John Murillo

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Victoria Smith

Amaud Jamaul Johnson is a poet and Halls-Bascom Professor of English at UW-Madison.

UW-Madison creative writing professor Amaud Jamaul Johnson's poems in Imperial Liquor, his latest volume of verse, are mostly set far off in Compton, California. There's nothing contrived or prettied-up about these poems that feel integral to the Black experience in the U.S. circa 2021. Yet on a sentence level, the verse often sings. John Murillo, a UW alumnus, will also read from his latest, Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry, which also contrasts street violence with poetic language. This presentation is from a partnership between the Wisconsin Book Festival and the University of Wisconsin Program in Creative Writing. Register here for a link.