At the intersection of creativity and community building

Jonetta Rose Barras is the kind of writer who inspires, both through her words and through her works. I had the pleasure of interviewing her about the MidnightRose reading series, a project she started in 2024 (or perhaps resurrected, as she organized an earlier incarnation in the 1970s). Jonetta doesn’t work alone—that’s not her style—and while I would say that MidnightRose is her brainchild, it is also the product of many voices coming together to build something special.