Word On The Street
Events
A gathering space for poetry, memory, and community. Discover where Carolyn will be speaking, reading, and connecting next on her current book tour.
Featured Works
Carolyn's widely anthologized poetry explores themes of contemporary and traditional life, family, and survival in prominent journals and collections such as Gathering Ground, Revise the Psalm, Obsidian, Pleiades, and Beltway Poetry Quarterly.
Media
Explore Carolyn's featured media appearances, interviews, and audio recordings. Highlights include a deep-dive interview on the Sojourn with Words podcast, alongside featured broadcasts and poetry segments celebrating her literary contributions.
“In Imagine His Mother Witnessing, Carolyn Joyner picks up where Langston Hughes
left off in “Mother to Son,” to expand maternal wisdom into an epic journey.
These poems read like a sacred text, a group of psalms both for the healing of loss
and for the raising of a generation to come. Joyner, a master poet whose poems
have inspired many for years, offers the gift of a long-awaited full collection, and
the wait was well worth it: It’s “Now [we] need to hear [her] hushed
voice speak.” Part elegy, part sonnet, part love poem, part Blues...it doesn’t
matter where you enter; there’s a lesson, even a balm, for us all.”
—A. Van Jordan
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