After a year marked by grief, the poet Ashley M. Jones considers the power of the name: "Black people do not want to hear their names called and Tweeted and put on T-shirts to gain a new life in American infamy."
Ashley M. Jones
Ashley M. Jones is the author of Magic City Gospel, dark / / thing, and REPARATIONS NOW! Her poems and essays appear in or are forthcoming at CNN, POETRY, The Oxford American, Origins Journal, The Quarry by Split This Rock, Obsidian, and many others. She teaches at the Alabama School of Fine Arts, she co-directs PEN Birmingham, and she is the founding director of the Magic City Poetry Festival. Find her at www.ashleymjonespoetry.com.