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"One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated."
― Lucille Clifton
About Praisesong
Praisesong for the People: poems from the heart and soul of Texas will commission 70 poets across 7 Texas regions to write original praise poems celebrating everyday people in the state we call home. This project seeks to uplift our diverse and intersecting population across age, gender, and BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, differently-abled, and immigrant communities.
Amanda Johnston
Amanda Johnston is a writer, visual artist, and the 2024 Texas State Poet Laureate. She is the author of two chapbooks, GUAP and Lock & Key, and the full-length collection Another Way to Say Enter. Her work has appeared in online and print publications, among them, Callaloo, Poetry Magazine, The Academy of American Poets, The Moth, and the anthologies, Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry and Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism. She has received fellowships from Cave Canem, Hedgebrook, and The Watermill Center. She is a former Board President of Cave Canem, an Affrilachian Poet, and founder/executive director of Torch Literary Arts.
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