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Charles H. Johnson -- Biography
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.... | A Middlesex and Monmouth counties (N.J.) arts high
school poetry instructor, Charles H. Johnson is a 2004
Paterson Poetry Prize finalist for his book, "Tunnel
Vision." He was a first-place winner of the 1998 Allen
Ginsberg Poetry Awards and has had poetry published in
a variety of literary journals and newspapers. These
include the Paterson Literary Review, Rockhurst Review, Connecticut Review and The New York Times. He
is poetry editor for the online literary magazine
Identity Theory.
A former 1st (Air) Cavalry Division infantry lieutenant who fought in the Vietnam War in 1970-71, Johnson is a graduate of Rutgers College. He is a Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation poet and poetry reviewer and night editor for the Home News Tribune in East Brunswick, N.J. He conducts weekly poetry workshops for the Middlesex County Youth Shelter in North Brunswick, N.J., and monthly workshops for the Paterson, N.J., school system. In the summer of 2003, he was lead poet for Paterson's Immigrant Poetry Project run by the district's English as Second Language Department. |
