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Gary Johnston [1]

Listed as: 
Poet
Public address: 
Bronx, NY
New York US
Email: 
gary165@netzero.net
Bio: 

Has taught creative writing and read and performed at such places as Columbia University,
The Working Theater, New Heritage Theater, White Mask Theater, African Poetry Theater, Hall of Fame Playhouse, Castillo Cultural Center, Brooklyn Underground, Tin Pan Alley, Tremont Senior Center, Bridgefield Civic League, the Jamaica Community Adolescent Program, Spotford Youth House, the Queens House of Detention, Bronx Museum, I.S. 181, P.S. 41, Phoenix House, and numerous other locations both nationally and in the tri-state area..

He has been published in, "The Black Voice", Sunbury Magazine "American Poetry Anthology", "New Rain", "Practice, Journal of Politics, Economics, Psychology, Sociology and Culture", "The Black Nation","Presstime", "Long Journey Home: An Anthology", "Something Good II: An Anthology", "Eyeball Magazine", "Poets On The Line", "African Voices”, “Bum Rush The Page” “Let Loose on the World, Celebrating Amiri Baraka at 75” and other small press publications.

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
In which languages are you fluent?: 
English
Born in: 
Bronx
Raised in: 
Bronx, NY
New York
Website: 
https://www.blindbeggarpress.org [2]
Prizes won: 

a New York State Foundation on the Arts Fellow, 1993 and winner of the William C. Wolfson Award for Poetry, BRIO Award, 1989, Bronx ACE Award for Poetry and Herbert H. Lehman College Award for Poetry. Member of Poets and Writers, Bronx Council on the Arts and African Diaspora Poets.

Identifies as: 
African American
Prefers to work with: 
Adults

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Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/gary_johnston [2] https://www.blindbeggarpress.org