Award-winning poet launches poetry series at University of Miami

By Elizabeth Amore

The University of Miami Libraries recently launched its new Josephine Johnson Poetry Series with a reading by award-winning literary British talent Adam Foulds at the Roberto C. Goizueta pavilion.

Funding from UM Professor Emerita Josephine Johnson established the poetry series as a way to highlight British poetry performance, criticism, and research.

The series will bring a British author or critic to the University every year. British-born Johnson, an alumna of the College of Arts and Sciences and former chair of the then-Department of Communications, also donated her papers and significant materials on William Butler Yeats and his circle to the Richter Library.