All Over Alabama Reading Hosted by Kimberly Casey

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Poet Kimberly Casey is hosting Magic City Poetry Festival's 2nd  ALL OVER ALABAMA Reading with Josh Baker, Jahman Hill, & Jerri Hardesty.

Featuring Jahman Hill, Josh Baker, and Jerri Hardesty.Jahman Hill is an award winning poet, playwright, professor, filmmaker and executive director of The Flourish Alabama. In 2018, Jahman claimed the title of 3rd best slam poet in the world, and in 2019 he wrote, produced, and starred in an award-winning one-man show, Black Enough, which played off-Broadway. An internationally-acclaimed poet, Hill is the 2021 recipient of the Alabama State Council on the Arts Literary Arts Fellowship in poetry, and his poetry videos have garnered millions of views online. Jahman is a professor at the University of Alabama where he received Master’s degrees in both Communication Studies and Women’s Studies.He is the director of Poetry University, an online poetry education organization. The core of Jahman&#x27;s creative work centers around “The Flourish”, or the idea that Black people are infinitely possible beings. For more information, visit jahmanhill.com.Tuscaloosa-based poet Joshua Baker is a Huntsville native and MSW graduate from Alabama A&amp;M University. His passions lie in minority mental health and LGBTQIA+ advocacy. He has had the opportunity to feature at Out Loud HSV and perform at 100 Thousand Poets for Change Birmingham. He has had work published in Out Loud! HSV: A Year in Review (2016-2019), Aura Literary Arts Review, and Hypertrophic Press. Baker was a member of Out Loud HSV&#x27;s 2018 Poetry Slam Team and has led various poetry workshops rooted in harnessing the power that lies in our Joy, our identity, and our immutable truths. In 2020, Baker was selected as the Editor’s Choice Winner for the Button Poetry Video Contest. Baker has also self-published two poetry chapbooks entitled This Here Side of Creation (2018) and Love Poems &amp; Other Ways to Lose A Poetry Slam (2018). He lives. He loves. He tells stories. And on most days, that&#x27;s enough to foot the bill. Jerri Hardesty lives in the woods of Alabama with husband, Kirk, also a poet. They run the nonprofit poetry organization, New Dawn Unlimited, Inc. (NewDawnUnlimited.com) Jerri has had over 500 poems published, and has won more than 1600 awards and titles in both written and spoken word poetry.

Because we believe in building community around poetry at the grassroots—we created a reading series that encourage poets to reach across the state and in their towns to create a shared platform for poetry and the celebration of Alabama's living contemporary literature. For each <a href="https://www.magiccitypoetryfestival.org/all-over-alabama-reading-series" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">All Over Alabama Reading</a>, the readers will be paid an honoraria by Magic City Poetry Festival. All three readers will be paid the same amount, regardless of their publication history, platform, and/or access. Join us.

MEET THE HOSTKimberly Casey was born and raised in Massachusetts, though she now calls Huntsville, Alabama home. She is the Founder and President of Out Loud Huntsville, a nonprofit organization dedicated to inspiring community outreach and activism through written and spoken word. Kimberly has competed at Southern Fried Poetry Slam, CUPSI, Texas Grand Slam, and performed at venues across the country. She received her MFA from Pacific University in 2021. She is a Poetry Editor for Passengers Press, and her first full-length collection, Where the Water Begins, was released in September 2021 through Riot in Your Throat press. More info at kimberlycpoetry.com.

All Over Alabama Reading Hosted by Kimberly Casey

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