Word Thursdays Online, featuring Clifford Brooks and Skye Jackson, will broadcast live on Thursday, April 24, at 7 PM EST.
To attend the event, please click this link just before 7 PM EST or visit Bright Hill’s Facebook page at 7 PM EST to view the live stream.
Suggested donation is $5, and free to students.
Donations to Bright Hill are gratefully accepted via Paypal by visiting https://paypal.me/brighthillpress, by check made out to Bright Hill Press Inc, and mailed to 94 Church Street, Treadwell, NY 13846, or by credit card by personal appointment by emailing [email protected].
Clifford Brooks is founder of The Southern Collective Experience, a cooperative of writers, musicians, and visual artists, which publishes the journal of culture The Blue Mountain Review. He hosts the National Public Radio show Dante’s Old South and co-hosts the podcast This Business of Music & Poetry. He is an instructor with the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program, Teachable, and Noetic. His teaching includes courses on creative writing, editing, and thriving as an autistic person.
His poetry publications include the books The Draw of Broken Eyes & Whirling Metaphysics, Athena Departs: Gospel of a Man Apart, and the chapbook Exiles of Eden. Old Gods, his third full-length book of poetry, is available through Mercer University Press.
Skye Jackson was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. She graduated from the UNO Creative Writing Workshop in May 2021. Her work has appeared in RHINO, The Southern Review, Palette Poetry, RATTLE, and elsewhere. Her poetry has been a finalist for the Iowa Review Poetry Award, the RATTLE Poetry Prize, and the RHINO Founders’ Prize, and in 2021, she received the AWP Intro Journals Award. Jackson’s work was also selected by Billy Collins for inclusion in the Library of Congress Poetry 180 Project. She has received support for her work from The Frost Place, The Key West Literary Seminar & Cave Canem. This summer, she will serve as Writer-in-Residence of the Jack Kerouac House. She currently teaches at Xavier University. Her debut poetry collection, Libre, has recently been published by Regalo Press with distribution from Simon & Schuster.
