Poetry. JUBILEE won the 2005 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry. "These luminous poems depict a world I never knew--or know as a child and since forgot--and they do so with the authority of a totally mature voice. The artistry that unifies JUBILEE is so perfect it is almost invisible. Altogether an amazing debut"--Philip Levine. "In JUBILEE, the effects of gravity are reversed in order to capture how the world weighs on the mind...These often deceptively measured prose poems critique not only their own form, but the structures, the foundations, of family, spirituality, and identity which we often fail to examine. Each self-portrait tells us as much about the environment as it reveals about the subject occupying them--the poet creating with a small mirror in one hand, a pen/camera/brush/etching knife in the other"--Kyle G. Dargan.

Roxane Beth Johnson's poems have appeared in: ZYZZYVA, American Poet, Sentence, The Bitter Oleander, Chelsea, Parthenon West Review, and elsewhere. She has been a Pushcart Prize finalist and was a recipient of an AWP Intro Writer's Award in Poetry. She lives and works in San Francisco.