Collections by Michelle Brown WSG Poet JP Howard

Collections by Michelle Brown

JP Howard curates and nurtures Women Writers in Bloom Poetry Salon, a forum offering all writers, but especially women, at all levels, a monthly venue to come together in a positive supportive space. The Salon celebrates its 7th Anniversary on April 14, 2018. She is a Cave Canem graduate fellow and is the author of “SAY/MIRROR,” a debut poetry collection published by The Operating System. “SAY/MIRROR” was a 2016 Lambda Literary Award Finalist in the Lesbian Poetry category. Howard is a 2018 featured author in Lambda Literary’s LGBTQ Writers in Schools program, a Push Cart Prize nominee and was a finalist for Split This Rock’s 2017 Freedom Plow Award for Petry & Activism. With Amber Atiya, she edited Volume 107 of Sinister Wisdom – “Black Lesbians-We Are the Revolution.” Sinister Wisdom is a multicultural Lesbian literary and art journal. Howard grew up in Sugar Hill, Harlem the daughter of the groundbreaking African American model of the 1940s and 50s, Ruth King. Poetry has played an important role in her life since childhood allowing her to find her own voice.