Award Winning Author Ashley M. Jones Wins Hearts With The Power Of Poetry

Ashley M. Jones, founding director of the Magic City Poetry Festival in Birmingham Alabama, is an award winning writer whose creative works have earned her national acclaim and recognition. Her poems and esssagys appear in many journals and anthologies including CNN, The Academy of American Poets, Poetry Magazine, Steel Toe REviw, and many others. She is co-director o PEN Birmingam and is a guest editor for Poetry Magazine. Today she speaks to us about how those who are often overlooked can make themselves heard through the power of the spoken word.