Angela Jackson-Brown Awarded Alabama Library Association Poetry Award

Angela Jackson-Brown

Congratulations to Angela Jackson-Brown on her 2021 Alabama Library Association Poetry Award for her poetry book, House Repairs, published by Negative Capability Press in 2018. The Alabama Library Association’s literary merit awards are selected each year for five different categories and showcase the best Alabama-born writers.

Angela’s autobiographical poems begin in a post-Jim Crow era and journey through her struggles as a black woman in the American South. Her wounds, loss, grief, and triumphs unfold within the metaphorical reconstruction of a house. House Repairs is an important book in how it masterfully weaves an inspiring tapestry of one woman’s struggle for wholeness, a shared journey that makes us, as readers, more human.

From Robert Gray, Author of Drew: Poems from Blue Water & Jesus Walks the Southland:

“I have often said that good poetry makes you think or feel deeply; great poetry makes you do both . . . Angela Jackson-Brown’s House Repairs is great poetry. In it you will find what makes poetry necessary. You will find honesty and pain, beauty and atonement in these poems, where the power of strangled and realized possibility sings . . .”

Read more about Angela in this interview and purchase her book on Amazon.