Taylor Johnson

ARtist-in-residence / May 9 - july 31 2022

The Nicholson Project welcomed poet and native Washingtonian Taylor Johnson for a three-month residency from May 9-July 31, 2022. Taylor Johnson is a poet and artist from Washington, DC. He is the author of Inheritance (Alice James Books, 2020), winner of the 2021 Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America, and named one of the best poetry collections of 2020 by The New York Times. His work appears in Poetry Magazine, The Paris Review, The Baffler, Scalawag, and elsewhere. Johnson is a Cave Canem graduate fellow and a recipient of the 2017 Larry Neal Writers’ Award from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, and the 2021 Judith A. Markowitz Award for Emerging Writers from Lambda Literary. Taylor was the 2022 inaugural Poet-in-Residence at the Guggenheim Museum.

Learn more about Taylor’s work at www.taylorjohnsonpoems.com

Taylor's residency culminated in a poetry reading with fellow DC-area-based writers Victoria Newton Ford, Simon Shieh, and Konstantin Kulakov. Themes of transition, Black motherhood, whiteness, and masculinity were shared in this reading of new and recent works. Taylor concluded the program and his time with Nicholson by sharing an excerpt from “Hymn,” an in progress book-length poem.

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