Jonah Mixon-Webster
Jonah Mixon-Webster is an American poet, sound artist, and educator from Flint, Michigan. He is the author of Stereo(TYPE) (2018).[1]
Life and career
Mixon-Webster received his Master of Arts in Creative Writing from Eastern Michigan University in 2014 and a PhD in English Studies (Creative Writing) from Illinois State University in 2018.[2] He is currently a Professor of English at Lansing Community College.[3] He has received fellowships from Vermont Studio Center,[4] Center for African American Poetry and Poetics,[5] The Conversation Literary Festival, Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, and ivoh.[6] He is the co-leader of the PEN America Detroit Chapter and is an editor for Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora.[7] In 2020, he received a Windham-Campbell Prize in the Poetry category. He dedicated the award "to the ongoing resistance in Flint, Michigan!"[8]
Works and reception
Mixon-Webster's poetry has appeared in Callaloo,[9] Spoon River Poetry Review,[10] HEArt Online,[11] Best New Poets 2017,[12] and Best American Experimental Writing of 2018.[13] His debut collection was published in 2018.
Stereo(TYPE) (2018)
Mixon-Webster's debut collection Stereo(TYPE) deals with the interplay of space and body, race and religion, sexuality and class in the present day context of systemic racism as it plays out in terms of actual and collective imaginary experiences of crisis. Described as "intimate and violent, provocative and tender, mythic and ritualistic" by the Windham-Campbell Prize Committee, Mixon-Webster uses oral history, government records, found text, image, and his background in experimental sound design to narrate the ongoing public health crisis in a city devastated by systemic racism and economic violence.[8] Through his character of "The Real Nigga", Mixon-Webster compels his reader to bear witness to the devastation of his hometown and in that witnessing choose solidarity or complicity. The collection was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry and was awarded the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry (2019).[14][15]
Bibliography
- Stereo(TYPE). Boise, Idaho: Ahsahta Press, 2018. ISBN 978-1-934103-80-7 Search this book on
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References
- ↑ "StereoTYPE". www.spdbooks.org. Retrieved March 20, 2020.
- ↑ "Creative Writing Alumni Spotlight". www.emich.edu. Retrieved March 20, 2020.
- ↑ "English Program Contact - English Department - Lansing Community College". internal.lcc.edu. Retrieved March 20, 2020.
- ↑ "Vermont Studio Center - Fellowships". Vermont Studio Center. Retrieved March 20, 2020.
- ↑ "Jonah Mixon-Webster | Fall 2018 | African American Poetry & Poetics | University of Pittsburgh". www.caapp.pitt.edu. Retrieved March 20, 2020.
- ↑ "Jonah Mixon-Webster". ivoh. Retrieved March 20, 2020.
- ↑ "About". Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora. Retrieved March 20, 2020.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Jonah Mixon-Webster". Windham Campbell Prizes. Retrieved March 20, 2020.
- ↑ "From the Editor's Notebook". Callaloo. Retrieved March 20, 2020.
- ↑ "Spoon River Poetry Review". Spoon River Poetry Review. Retrieved March 20, 2020 – via Facebook.
- ↑ "Two Poems by Jonah Mixon-Webster". HEArt Online. Retrieved March 20, 2020.
- ↑ Diaz, Natalie, ed. (2017). Best New Poets 2017: 50 Poems from Emerging Writers. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. ISBN 978-0-9975623-1-6. OCLC 993549510. Search this book on
- ↑ "BAX 2018 – BAX". Retrieved March 20, 2020.
- ↑ "31st Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists". Lambda Literary. Retrieved March 20, 2020.
- ↑ "PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry". PEN America. February 5, 2019. Retrieved March 20, 2020.
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