Joe Milford Hosts Larry Johnson

Larry Johnson was born in Natchez, Mississippi, in 1945 and grew up in Jackson. He attended Mississippi College for his BA and then the University of Arkansas, receiving his MA and MFA degrees in 1970. He has taught at Alma College, the University of New Orleans, North Carolina State University, and Louisburg College. He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina. In the fall of 2006 he gave a reading of his poems at the Library of Congress. Veins is his first published volume of poetry.