Hawona Sullivan Janzen

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Hawona Sullivan Janzen is a Minnesota based  poet, and performance artist whose work explores the complex nature of grief, loss, love, and hope. She is the co-founder of  Witness Writing, a free community-based writing workshop  at the University of Minnesota. A fan of non-traditional  poetry publications, Sullivan Janzen’s  work has been read on National Public Radio, featured in  10 foot tall broadsides on the side of buildings for the Poetry of Resistance and Change Project,  imprinted on coffee sleeves  by Coffee House Press., and performed as a jazz opera at the Soap Factory  Gallery. She is currently at work on “BLUE: Our Lives Are On This Line,” a collection of encounter poems about life along the Blue Line expansion route in North Minneapolis and the “Rondo Family Reunion,” a public art lawn sign project featuring poetry and  photos of life in St. Paul, Minnesota’s Rondo Neighborhood, a historically African-American community  torn apart by the building of Interstate 94.

Facebook: www.facebook.com/hawonawrites
Twitter: @hawona
Instagram: @hawonawrites

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