Johnica Rivers

@KristyT It's giving exactly this.

They are over on threads acting like it is 2012 twitter.😂

With Weatherspoon Art Museum, we welcome National Book Award winner and MacArthur Fellow @imaniperry to our 2026 Book Festival. In Black in Blues, she explores how art, memory, and history shape the American story. A defining voice for our American Kaleidoscope.

Evie Shockley (@seminewblack) is the recipient of the Academy of American Poets Fellowship, which recognizes distinguished poetic achievement & carries with it a stipend of $25,000 & a residency at the Eliot House in Gloucester, Massachusetts.

Ariana Benson’s (@literari_ana) Black Pastoral (UGA Press @UGAPress, 2023) has won the $25,000 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for the most outstanding book of poetry published in the U.S. in the previous calendar year. Kyle Dargan, Yesenia Montilla @yeseniamontilla, & D.A. Powell @Powell_DA judged.

So honored to be able to share my family’s stories with the world.

Meet the SOJOURNING issue, edited by @alexispauline, @johnica, & @MichelleIsRizin. "What you cannot know at the beginning of a sojourn is who you will be on the other side. This is what we want for you." southerncultures.org/issues/sojourn…

Dear Beloved, Come on out into the Outside: —  where the nightshade trumpets cry slow sap   & celebrate. Come on Beloved. Come on out ––Joy Priest @Dalai_Mama_ #PoemADay poets.org/poem/black-out…

On Due South, @LeonedaInge talks with the Harriet Jacobs Project about the gathering that brought Black women from all over the country to honor the legacy of the abolitionist and author of "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl." wunc.org/show/due-south…

A recent artist activation by Letitia Huckaby activates Jacobs's hometown as part of a larger initiative by Michelle Lanier and Johnica Rivers. artnews.com/art-news/artis…

latimes.com/lifestyle/imag… A conversation on mutual obsessions and AJ’s new work

Once every four years, we get an extra day of Black History Month! I’ll use it to spotlight Phillis Wheatley, the first enslaved African American woman to have a book of poems published. The @librarycongress has a first edition! #blackhistorymonth #poetry

This is such a wonderful week for Black women’s writing. The tradition is being tended.

@Harmony_Holiday is awarded a 2024 Grace Dudley Prize for Arts Writing. Ms. Holiday's work "exists at the intersection of criticism, poetry, and contemporary art, affording new insights into the affective structure of Black creative life." @4_columns @latimesimage

I'm thrilled to announce that my latest book, COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War, is on its way! I can't wait to unveil this journey with you all. Secure your copy through preorders now!

Teaching the work of Jennifer Nash is a joy. So much clarity and care.

rabkinfoundation.org/awards City girls up 🖤

Whiting winner @alexispauline, alongside Michelle Lanier and Johnica Rivers, is editing an issue of @SCquarterly called "Sojourning," inspired by the life and legacies of Harriet Ann Jacobs. Submissions accepted through 7/1; find out more here: buff.ly/3McDWAC