Fifth Wednesday Journal: Janice Harrington, Kevin Stein, Rachel Jamison Webster & Quraysh Ali Lansana

Janice N. Harrington is the author of the poetry collections Even the Hollow My Body Made Is Gone (2007), The Hands of Strangers: Poems from the Nursing Home (2011), and Primitive: The Art and Life of Horace H. Pippin (2016), as well as several award-winning children’s books. Poet and critic Kevin Stein was named Illinois Poet Laureate in 2003. A professor of English and the director of the creative writing program at Bradley University, Stein is known for the humor and insight of his poems, and the lucidity of his prose. Rachel Jamison Webster lives in Chicago and teaches poetry at Northwestern University. She edits the online anthology of international poetry, UniVerse. Quraysh Ali Lansana is the author of the poetry collections mystic turf (2012), They Shall Run: Harriet Tubman Poems (2004), and Southside Rain (2000). He has been a literary teaching artist and curriculum developer for over a decade and has led workshops in prisons, public schools, and universities in over 30 states.

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