Carolyn June-Jackson

My Poetic Threads Create A Tapestry Carolyn June-Jackson

"My Poetic Threads Create a Tapestry" accurately expresses how Author Carolyn June-Jackson envisions her poetry: a hand-woven embroidered tapestry stitched together with strands of imagery, realism, humorous, and inspirational parables in rhyme. 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. She doesn't see herself physically participating in marches but instead wields her pen as a form of protest against injustice. Her book is divided into six sections that feature the celebration, memorialization, and recognition of our ancestors, history, relationships, emotional issues, racism, and social and political issues that impact everyday lives. Carolyn June-Jackson grew up in an all-Black, closely-knit, well-established enclave sustained by black business owners and productive and caring residents from all walks of life in the Halls Hill community in North Arlington, Virginia, which was only eight miles from the District of Columbia. Carolyn began writing poetry in the early 1980s, and now she gets to share her gift with the world.