Through stories from family & friends plus items in our collections, get an in-depth look at poet Joe Johnson. He was a founding member of the Umbra workshop, a collective of Black writers based in the LES in the early 60s. #SchomburgCenter@allisonlydia https://t.co/cwZ20iOWv4
I talked to the friends and family of Joe Johnson, a poet who was part of the influential Umbra workshop in the 60s and who died in 2019 with a cache of unpublished manuscripts he'd been quietly writing for decades
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love to see this! working at the union square barnes and noble was my first job in nyc out of college, maybe if it had been unionized then i could have afforded to eat lunch more often