Amanda Johnston

**Amanda Johnston** (a mụrụ ya n'afọ 1977) bụ onye Afrịka na Amerịka na-ede uri. A mụrụ ya na obodo East St. Louis, Illinois, ma o bi ugbu a na Round Rock / Austin, Texas. Amanda Johnston nwetara nzere Master of Fine Arts na edemede okike na Mahadum nke Southern Maine . Ọ bụ onye otu Stonecoast MFA, onye isi nchịkwa na onye guzobere Torch Literary Arts, na onye guzobere #BlackPoetsSpeakOut .

Onye Affrilachian na-ede uri, onye bụbu Cave Canem Foundation Board President, na Austin Project Fellow, Torch Literary Arts founder na Black Poets Speak Out cofounder, Johnston bụ onye na-ede uri na onye na-eme ihe nkiri. Dị ka onye na-eme ihe ike na Black Poets Speak Out, ọrụ vidio nke gụnyere ndị African American na-ede uri na-eme mkpesa maka omume ọjọọ ndị uwe ojii na uri, o gosipụtara ikpe na-ezighị ezi agbụrụ na mmekọrịta mmadụ na ibe ya na mba United States.

## Genesis
Johnston bụ onye kere ụdị uri a maara dị ka Genesis. Ọ bụ ụdị nke nwere uri ise edere na ogidi, ma gụọ site n'elu ruo na ala, tinyere uri nke isii ọzọ nke e kere site n'ịgụ kọlụm ise niile ọnụ, site n'aka ekpe gaa n'aka nri, na uri nke asaa nke e kere site na okwu na ahịrịokwu ndị dị na kọlụm ise, nke a na-agụkwa site n'aka ekpe gaa n'aka nri. Abụ ndị ahụ aghaghịkwa ịgagharị n'usoro oge site na oge.

## Ihe nrite

* 2016 Pushcart Prize Nominee, “Night Hike,” The Quarry, Split This Rock
* 2015 Split This Rock, Freedom Plow Award, Joint Finalist
* 2014 Poets & Writers, Grant
* 2015: Freedom Plow Award for Poetry & Activism Finalist
* 2005: Austin International Poetry Festival Christina Sergeyevna Award
* 2004: Kentucky Foundation for Women Artist Enrichment Grant
* 2003: Kentucky Foundation for Women Artist Enrichment Grant
* "13 Black Poets You Should Know," Blavity
* The Caribbean Writer's Canute A. Brodhurst Prize in Short Fiction
* Onye mmeri, John Edgar Wideman Mircrostory Contest
* Ebe mbụ, Detroit Writers Guild Paul Laurence Dunbar Poetry Contest
* Ebe mbụ, Oakland University Ekphrasis Poetry Contest

## Ọrụ ndị a họọrọ

### Ọrụ E Bipụtara

* “2019History Repeating Repeating,” Thalia Magazine
* “2019Crossing In,” Thalia Magazine
* “2019 gbaghara m, mana e gbuola nwanyị ojii ọzọ ma maa m jijiji,” Thalia Magazine
* “2018Code Switchin’,” Ice Cream Social Anthology
* 2017 “When My Daughter Wasn’t Assaulted,” Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism Anthology
* 2017Photo: White Woman Sitting on Black Woman as Chair on MLK Day," Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism Anthology
* “2017Love is a Bloody Thing in the Dark,” Talking River,”
* “2017Another Morning Blessed Be,” Black Bone: 25 Years of Affrilachian Poets Anthology
* “2017Answer the Call,” Black Bone: 25 Years of Affrilachian Poets Anthology
* “2016When My Daughter Wasn’t Assaulted,” Mba, Dear Magazine
* “2016How to Eat Bread,” Harlequin Creature, Issue 8/9
* “2016On National Poetry Month,” Academy of American Poets for Poetry Magazine
* “2016Early,” The Plume Anthology of Poetry 4
* “2016Night Hike,” Full: An Anthology of Moon Poems
* “2015It Ain’t Prostitution,” Circ’s Lament: Anthology of Wild Women Poetry
* “2015Facing US,” Pluck!: The Journal of Affrilachian Arts & Culture
* “2014If I Should Disobey an Order,” Straylight Volume 7.22
* “2014For the Baby,” Straylight Volume 7.2
* “2013How to Drink Bourbon,” Small Batch: An Anthology of Bourbon Poetry
* “2013Red Birds,” Cabildo Quarterly
* “2012Thyme for Onions,” The New Sound: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Arts and Literature
* “2012Genesis,” The New Sound: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Arts and Literature
* “2010 Oracle,” Reverie, Kwa Afọ
* “2010Girlfriend There Is No Spoon,” Reverie, Annual
* “2009Buckle,” Reverie, Spring/Summer Vol. 3
* 2008 "Sparky Considers God's Hands" Cave Canem XI 2007 Anthology
* 2008Orange” The Journal of Affrilachian Arts & Culture
* 2008Making Brown' *Pluck*!: The Journal of Affrilachian Arts & Culture
* 2007 "A Burden of Flame: An interview with Amanda Johnston" *Callaloo*, Vol. 30, Number 4
* “2007Suburban Cows” *New Literati*
* “2007Pity” *New Literati*
* “2007Over Breakfast” His Rib, Penmanship Publishing
* “2007History Lesson” His Rib, Penmanship Publishing
* “2007Over Breakfast,” His Rib, Penmanship Publishing
* “2007History Lesson,” His Rib, Penmanship Publishing
* “2007Round,” Tempu Tupu, Africa World Press
* “2007Mourning,” Tempu Tupu, Africa World Press
* “2007Vacant Apartment,” Tempu Tupu, Africa World Press
* “2007 Ọ dị mgbe a mara gị ikpe maka mpụ?” Tempu Tupu, Africa World Press
* “2007Bowing in *the* Church of Beauty” The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South, Georgia Press
* 2006 "Bowing in the Church of Beauty" *Sorin Oak Review*
* 2006 “Origami” *Sorin Oak Review*
* 2005 "Cul-de-sac" *Kudzu*
* 2005 "Dissecting Heritage" *Kudzu*
* 2005 "Thyme for Onions" *di-verse-city* Anthology
* 2004 "Reading in Bed" *di-verse-city* Anthology
* 2004 "Baby Mama Drama" KRHN Newsletter
* 2003 "Four Line Depression" *The Heartland Review*
* 2002 "Animal Instinct" *The Heartland Review*
* 2002 "Miz Cassidy's Vision" *The Heartland Review*
* “2002If Iraq Happens” *The Heartland Review*

### Mbipụta elektrọnik

* “2018When My Daughter Wasn’t Assaulted,” Lone Star Literary Review
* “2018Love is a Bloody Thing in the Dark,” In Their Own Words Feature, Poetry Society of America
* “2017 Anyị kpọrọ gị Ebere.” Poem-A-Day, Academy of American Poets, Poets.org
* “2017When My Daughter Wasn’t Assaulted,” BillMoyers.com
* “2016Making Amends,” Stonecoast Review
* “2016Peeling Potatoes,” Stonecoast Review
* “2016 I Embrace You,” Stonecoast Review
* 2016 “Hand to Mouth,” The Offing
* “2016Heirloom,” Puerto del Sol
* “2016Man Picking Cotton,” Puerto del Sol
* “2016Egg Wash,” Puerto del Sol
* “2014Mixed Blood,” Kinfolks Quarterly, Issue 2
* “2014Blade Speaks at Career Day,” Kinfolks Quarterly, Issue 2
* “2014Plea,” La Fovea
* “2014The Viewing,” La Fovea
* “2014Woman in Red Dress,” Tuesday Morning Love
* “2013Asylum,” Cabildo Quarterly
* “2012Transition,” Muzzle Magazine
* “2009Bomb Threat,” November 3 Club
* “2009Domicile,” The Drunken Boat
* “2009 Nna m dị ka osisi na-acha ọbara ọbara,” The Drunken Boat
* 2008 "Pinky Wants To Live" The Nubian Chronicles
* 2008 "Swimsuit" Un-Mute.com
* 2008 "First Song" Un-Mute.com
* “2006Bowing in the Church of Beauty’ Cave Canem Featured Poem
* “2005Not Another Love Jones,” Old City Cool
* “2005Not My Husband,” Old City Cool
* 2003 "If Iraq Happens" Poets Against the War
* 2003 "Miz Cassidy's Vision" Poetry Repair Shop

### Ọrụ E gosipụtara na

* Bill Moyers Poetry Society of America's series In Their Own Words
* Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day series

### Akwụkwọ, chapbooks, CD, DVD

* 2017 Ụzọ ọzọ ị ga-esi kwuo Banye, Nchịkọta
* 2016 Not An Apology, Anthology, Foreword
* 2015 Pluck!: The Journal of Affrilachian Arts & Culture, Issue 13, Guest Editor
* 2014 GUAP, Chapbook
* 2014 Lock and Key, Chapbook
* 2008 Affrilachian Poets na Nuyorican Poets Cafe, DVD
* 2008 Excerpts, Chapbook
* 2004 Not Another Love Jones, Chapbook
* 2004 Quickies, CD

## Ebensidee

## Njikọ mpụga

* Official website
* Ọgba Canem
* Torch Literary Arts

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