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Summoning the Ancestral: Reading & Author Talk with Sarah Kersey & Tatiana Johnson-Boria
Sun, Apr 13
|JustBook-ish
Join Sarah Kersey, author of "Residence Time" and Tatiana Johnson-Boria author of "Nocturne in Joy" in a reading and conversation.
Time & Location
Apr 13, 2025, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
JustBook-ish, 1463 Dorchester Ave, Dorchester, MA 02122, USA
Guests
About the event
Sarah Kersey is a poet and x-ray technologist originally from New Jersey. Her debut chapbook Residence Time is published with Newfound. Their work has appeared in The Rumpus, Columbia Journal, The Account, and elsewhere. Sarah has received support from Tin House Worksop.
Tatiana Johnson-Boria (she/her) is the author of Nocturne in Joy (2023), winner of the 2024 Julia Ward Howe Book Prize in Poetry. As an educator, artist, facilitator, and mother; she uses her writing practice to dismantle racism, reckon with trauma, cultivate healing, and to explore the complex magic of mothering. She has received fellowships and awards from Tin House, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, MacDowell, the Brother Thomas Fellowship, and St. Botolph Club Foundation, among others. Tatiana teaches at GrubStreet, and has been on faculty at Emerson College, among other institutions. Her work appears or is forthcoming in The Academy of American Poets, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review Online, and more.…