Jean D Johnson: 6 books

When I lost my mother, I was advised to write letters to her. When I found this too difficult to do, the poetry about grief and my sadness over losing my mother just came naturally to me - almost as if Mom was working through me somehow. I wrote many poems during the first year after losing Mom, and...

Quite a while ago, I asked my mother to fill out a store-bought book about her life. You know, the ones that are called, "Mother's Remembrances" or some such thing? Several years before Mom died, she surprised me with a huge scrapbook of her life from birth through adulthood and into her retirement...

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People across Canada’s North have created vibrant community institutions to serve a wide range of social and economic needs. Neither state-driven nor profit-oriented, these organizations form a relatively under-studied third sector of the economy. Researchers from the Social Economy Research Network...

Ever since Plato’s Socrates exiled the poets from the ideal city in The Republic, Western thought has insisted on a strict demarcation between philosophy and poetry. Yet might their long-standing quarrel hide deeper affinities? This book explores the distinctive ways in which twentieth-century and...

Mentoring Away the Glass Ceiling in Academia: A Cultured Critique is different in that it calls attention to the role mentoring has played on the “glass ceiling” phenomenon in higher education. Narratives by and about the experiences of women of diverse backgrounds in the United States and beyond...