Tuesday, June 9, 2020

June 8 2020 Detroit Poetry News: Winner of the 2020 Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award

Press Release:

Good Afternoon, Everyone
The Broadside Lotus Press is pleased to announce this year's Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award winner.

Tanque R. Jones
Winner of the 2020 Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award
Broadside Lotus Press

Ms. Tanque R. Jones has won the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award for 2020. Ms. Jones lives in Knoxville, TN. She earned an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Tennessee. She has taught creative writing at several colleges in Knoxville. Her poems have been published in Clackamas Literary Review, Connecticut River Review, West Trade Review, and Colere. Her poetry speaks powerfully of race, class and African American history, from the slavery era to the present.


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