Diane Abu-Jaber
Meena Alexander
Robert Antoni
Wayne Armond
Russell Banks
Amiri Baraka
Eddie Baugh
Roger Bonair-Agard
Dionne Brand
Yvonne Brewster
Alwin Bully
Daniel Chavarría
Staceyann Chin
George Elliott Clarke
Oliver Clarke
Manthia Diawara
Mark Doty
Fae Ellington
Steve Golding
Francisco Goldman
Perry Henzell
Joan Andrea Hutchinson
Linton Kwesi Johnson
Niki Johnson
Konrad Kirlew
Li-Young Lee
Miles Marshall Lewis
Andrea Levy
Mbala
Mutabaruka
Krist Novoselic
Stephanie Stokes Oliver
Ernie Ranglin
Lauren Saunders
Niki Johnson
Niki’s collection skywalking won a Special Commendation in the 1997 NBDC/NCB Awards. Her work has been published in the Jamaica Observer and she has performed at the Poetry Society’s monthly Fellowship and taught at the Philip Sherlock Centre for the Creative Arts. Ms. Johnson currently serves as Chief Judge in the category of poetry for the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission.

She was one of fifteen writers who performed at the 2000 World Expo in Hannover, Germany for the Anna Blume Project in celebration of the artist/poet Kurt Schwitters. Her work is published in the two anthologies created by the Project, which presented poems from over 150 nations in close to 100 languages, each reproduced in their own script.

Program: Calabash Writers Workshop presents …