![]() ![]() Another chapbook, The Tar Baby on the Soapbox, and the poetry collection, Stormy Blues, followed. October 1995 saw the debut of her first books: Juneteenth Jamboree for children, and The Tan Chanteuse, winner of the North Carolina Writers’ Network’s poetry chapbook competition. A graduate school photoessay project evolved into her 2002 book, Remember the Bridge: Poems of a People. ![]() In 1982, she earned a Master of Arts in publications design from the University of Baltimore. She went on to publish poems in such literary journals as Calyx, Callaloo, African American Review, and Obsidian II. But she did not aspire to be an author until 1980 when her poem, “I’m Made of Jazz,” appeared in a local magazine, marking her first professional publication credit. ![]() At American University she majored in promotion/marketing communication and minored in creative writing. Weatherford wrote her way through elementary, secondary, and undergraduate school, contributing to student newspapers and literary magazines. Thus, she saw her work in print while still in grade school. Her father, a high school printing teacher, used a few of her early poems as typesetting exercises for his students. When Weatherford was in first grade, she dictated a poem about the seasons to her mother. Carole Boston Weatherford was born in Baltimore, MD. ![]()
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