Carolyn June-Jackson

Carolyn June-Jackson is a native of Arlington, Virginia. As a child, she remembers the oppressed systemic racism during the 1950s and the volatile civil rights movement during the 1960s. These early memories influenced her to share her thoughts and feelings of racism and segregation through a black prism in her poetry.

The title, "My Poetic Threads Create a Tapestry," is divided into six chapters that express how she envisions her poetry: a hand-woven embroidered tapestry stitched together with strands of imagery, realism, humorous, and inspirational parables in rhyme. They feature the celebration, memorialization, and recognition of her ancestors, history, relationships, emotional issues, racism, and social and political issues that impact everyday lives.

This is her first book of poetry but she hopes it won’t be her last.

Carolyn currently resides in Saint Louis, Missouri, with her husband, Jerry.