Patient Sermon

Roxane Beth Johnson is the author of one collection of poetry, Jubilee (Anhinga, 2006), which won the 2005 Philip Levine Prize in Poetry. A second collection, Black Crow Dress , is forthcoming from Alice James Books in fall 2012. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Georgia Review , Prairie Schooner , Image , Callaloo , Chelsea , and ZYZZYVA , and elsewhere. She won a 2007 Pushcart Prize and has received scholarships and fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, Cave Canem, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and the Vermont Studio Center. Photo by Rachel Eliza Griffiths