About Amaud Jamaul Johnson

Amaud Jamaul Johnson’s debut collection, Red Summer, won the 2004 Dorset Prize from Tupelo Press and will be published by Tupelo in spring 2006. Johnson was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford and a Cave Canem Fellow and is currently an assistant professor of English in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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He promises a canary dress, white gloves,
says they’ll eat chops, thick as her thighs,
that they’ll order doubles of the “finest,”

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