Stories by youth producers at Grisham Middle School during the 2014-15 school year. For this project in collaboration with "Stories from Deep in the Heart," students documented a wide range of folklife traditions, such as Norwegian and German family recipes in the U.S., the lives of community musicians and poets, and the artisan soap-making process.

Ms. Johnston's Poetry

A short presentation at Monkeywrench Books in Austin, Texas on July 18, 2015. My notes: http://pastebin.com/qkZ7mjim

What Is Revolutionary Media?

"The Clock Man" by Shel Silverstein ready by Amanda Johnston for Poetry Foundation Record-a-Poem. 

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“THE CLOCK MAN” by Shel Silverstein read by Amanda Johnston

Amanda Johnston earned a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of Southern Maine. Her debut poetry collection, Another Way to Say Enter, is forthcoming from Argus House Press. Her poetry and interviews have appeared in numerous online and print publications, among them, Callaloo, Poetry, Kinfolks Quarterly, Muzzle, Pluck! and the anthologies, Small Batch, di-ver-city and The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South. The recipient of multiple Artist Enrichment grants from the Kentucky Foundation for Women and the Christina Sergeyevna Award from the Austin International Poetry Festival, she is a member of the Affrilachian Poets and a Cave Canem graduate fellow. Johnston is a Stonecoast MFA faculty member, a cofounder of Black Poets Speak Out, and founding executive director of 
Torch Literary Arts.

“THE CLOCK MAN” by Shel Silverstein read by Amanda Johnston

Amanda M Johnston

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