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May 2025

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  • Macarthur Fellows Gathering!  
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  • Brown Girl Dreaming   Center For Fiction
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  • KidsRead   Center For Fiction
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  • Each Kindness   Castle Bridge School
  • Black Girl Magic Ball   Lincoln Center Plaza
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  • The New York Women's Foundation Award Ceremony   New York Marriott Marquis Broadway Ballroom
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  • Kenyon College’s 2025 Commencement Address   Kenyon College
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  • Summer Reading Launch 2025   The Browning School
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  • Helping Black Children Rise: Agency and Resiliency in Children's Literature   The Center for Black Agency and Resilience
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  • Talking ANOTHER BROOKLYN with High School Students   Brooklyn Emerging Leadership Academy
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  • State Author (Me) & State Poet (Patricia Spears Jones) Celebrating Our Journey   Center For Fiction
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  • POETRY SOCIETY OF AMERICA FROST MEDAL CEREMONY HONORING Nikki Giovanni   The Century Club
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Jacqueline Woodson

Jacqueline Woodson

Jacqueline Woodson is an American writer of books for adults, children, and adolescents. She is best known for her National Book Award-Winning memoir Brown Girl Dreaming, and her Newbery Honor-winning titles After Tupac and D Foster, Feathers, and Show Way. Her picture books The Day You Begin and The Year We Learned to Fly were NY Times Bestsellers. After serving as the Young People’s Poet Laureate from 2015 to 2017, she was named the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature by the Library of Congress for 2018–19. She was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 2020. Later that same year, she was named a MacArthur Fellow.