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Balcones Prize
Austin Community College
6101 Highland Campus Drive
Austin, TX 78752
United States
This event is free and open to the public. Click here to launch the Zoom meeting. The passcode is CRW.
Join JJJJJerome Ellis for a virtual classroom visit as the winner of Austin Community College’s Balcones Poetry Prize. Click here to join the Zoom.
JJJJJerome Ellis
JJJJJerome Ellis is a disabled animal, artist, and person who stutters. JJJJJerome was born in 1989 to Jamaican and Grenadian immigrants.
Poetry
Poems
A polyphonic new entry in Multiverse, JJJJJerome Ellis’s Aster of Ceremonies beautifully rewrites history, creating a world that blooms backward, reimagining what it means for Black and disabled people to have taken, and to continue to take, their freedom.