![]() We applied for a grant for what became our keynote event, and when we got that funding, I took the opportunity to create a festival (finally!) around that event. ![]() Attending grad school in Miami allowed me to see the impact of this festival up close and personal, and I want that sort of radical and widespread poetry celebration for Birmingham! My fellow Alabama Writers’ Conclave board member Alina Stefanescu brought the PEN America piece my way last October. Well, I’ve wanted to create some sort of poetry festival in Birmingham after seeing what Scott Cunningham did in Miami with the O, Miami Poetry Festival. What inspired you to organize this event? ![]() ![]() The 2018 Magic City Poetry Festival will be a week-long celebration of poetry in Birmingham. After receiving the silver medal for poetry in the 2017 Independent Publishers Book Awards and garnering positive notices in Publishers Weeklyand The New Yorker, the Birmingham native, who is also a member of the Alabama School of Fine Arts’ Creative Writing faculty, began coordinating the first-ever Magic City Poetry Festival, coming up in April. ![]() Jones has not rested on her laurels since publishing her debut poetry collection Magic City Gospel in early 2017. ![]()
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