In Conversation with poet, Cyrée Jarelle Johnson
Cyrée Jarelle Johnson (he/him) is a poet and writer from Piscataway, NJ. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Yale Review, Granta, Poetry, and Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day, among other publications. He earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University with support from Columbia University and the Davis Putter Scholarship Fund.
WATCHNIGHT, his second collection of poetry won the 2023 James Laughlin Award. It will be published by Nightboat Books in February 2024. Development of the work was supported by the National Endowment for the Arts. He's a 2024 Disability Futures Fellow.
Find the CSUSB Disability Lecture Series Homepage and learn about past and upcoming events here (link). Series organizers are CSUSB Professors Jessica Luck, Tiffany Jones, Jess Nerren, Jonathan Hall, and Jeremy Murray. Thanks to Pamela Crosson (History) for administrative support, and Thinh Ly (Information Technology Consultant) for his technological support. This year, our series is supported by a grant from Accelerate InSoCal and The Cog Neurodiversity Space.