Judith Emlyn Johnson

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Judith Emlyn Johnson (formerly Judith Johnson Sherwin) (born 1936) is an American poet.

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Life

She graduated from Barnard College cum laude. She studied at Columbia University, Radcliffe College, and the Juilliard School of Music.

She teaches at State University of New York at Albany. [1] She was President of the Board of Association of Writers & Writing Programs, and President of the Poetry Society of America. [2] She edited 13th Moon, [3] and published The Little Magazine. [4]

Her work appeared in Atlantic Monthly, Chelsea, Harper's, [5] Ms., New York Times, Nimrod, Playboy. Her intermedia installation / performance piece, "Friedrich Liebermann, American Artist," has been widely exhibited, and is now being developed as a multi-media cd-rom novel. Her play manuscript "Belisa's Love" is in the Princeton University archives. [6]

She lives in New York City. [7]

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