![Ashley M. Jones](https://www.muw.edu/welty/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2022/09/ajones_lg.jpg)
author of Reparations Now!
Friday, October 22, 9:00am
Ashley M. Jones returns to the symposium with her third collection of poetry Reparations Now! Her two previous collections are dark // thing and Magic City Gospel. Jones serves as the poet laureate of Alabama, the first Black poet to be awarded this honor. She is also a teacher at the Alabama School for the Arts in her native Birmingham.
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