Author Talk & Performance: Shadow Act

Join local author, Daniel Johnson and his partner Dr. Ebele Okpokwasili-Johnson for a conversation and preformace highlighting Johnson‘s newest collection of poetry, Shadow Act, a moving tribute to friendship, grief, and resilience.

Daniel Brock Johnson is the author of Shadow Act: an Elegy for Journalist James Foley, published by McSweeney’s and longlisted for the Massachusetts Book Award. Previously, Johnson published How to Catch a Falling Knife with Alice James Books. In 2019, the City of Boston commissioned Johnson to draft lines of poetry for the twin memorials commemorating the Boston Marathon bombings. Johnson’s poetry has been featured in outlets such as National Public Radio, PBS NewsHour, The Washington Post, and in a variety of publications including Best American Poetry, Tin House, and I Have My Own Song for It: Modern Poems of Ohio. Johnson has received awards from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Poetry Center of Chicago, Foreword Book Awards, and elsewhere. For nearly a decade, Johnson served as the…