14.022019September 6, 2019
Voices of Bettering American Poetry Volume 3 — Roberto C. Garcia

Voices of Bettering American Poetry Volume 3 — Roberto C. Garcia

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What have you been reading, watching, or listening to lately? What new or emerging writer do you want the world to know about? Who would...

04.022019September 10, 2019
Living in Liminality: Working with the Wounds of Trauma through Altered States & Poison Medicine 

Living in Liminality: Working with the Wounds of Trauma through Altered States & Poison Medicine 

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Adapted from a keynote given at the 2018 Transformative Language Arts Network Power of Words Conference +++ What is the center what is the center...

04.012019September 10, 2019
Discussing Resistance and Hope: Mini-Interviews with Cyree Jarelle Johnson & Naomi Ortiz

Discussing Resistance and Hope: Mini-Interviews with Cyree Jarelle Johnson & Naomi Ortiz

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“I felt scared and powerless the evening of Election Day 2016. The term ‘resistance’ became popular and commonplace in the news with the start of...

27.072018September 9, 2019
VIDA Reviews! In Search of Pure Lust & Conversation with Author Lise Weil

VIDA Reviews! In Search of Pure Lust & Conversation with Author Lise Weil

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“A lesbian is a memoir.”  – Lou Robinson “Lesbian-feminism invites us to be present, to follow the crumbs.”  – Julie Enszer1 “We saw ourselves as...

29.062018September 10, 2019
Body of a Poem: Neither Here nor There, Asexual and Agender in the Literary World

Body of a Poem: Neither Here nor There, Asexual and Agender in the Literary World

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It hurts when even my sisters look at me in the street with cold and silent eyes. I am defined as other in every group...

04.062018November 12, 2019
Report from the Field: Of Myopia, White Supremacy and the Personal Essay

Report from the Field: Of Myopia, White Supremacy and the Personal Essay

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In 2017, I took my first creative nonfiction workshop with a reputed author, editor, and teacher of creative writing in the heart of Los Angeles,...

22.052018September 10, 2019
Nepantla’s Queer Women of Color Odes to Literary Ancestors

Nepantla’s Queer Women of Color Odes to Literary Ancestors

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Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color is coming out from Nightboat Books on May 1, 2018, though I originally began editing this...

17.022017September 10, 2019
Report from the Field: The Silence of a Siren

Report from the Field: The Silence of a Siren

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At 8am I have students hunched over their copies of The Aeneid with questions from the night before, clarifications rising like exhalations of vapor in...

29.012017November 12, 2019
Where Do We Go From Here? Against Hegemony, Toward Integrity: The Dissident Artist’s Struggle

Where Do We Go From Here? Against Hegemony, Toward Integrity: The Dissident Artist’s Struggle

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Artists have declared their dissent from Trump. #WritersResist, #ArtAfterTrump, and #J20ArtStrike are a sample of many anti-Trump events organized by artists worldwide. It’s important to...

04.102016September 6, 2019
Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — Melissa Studdard

Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — Melissa Studdard

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What’s the earliest experience, or a stand-out experience, you can remember that made you realize that you can be yourself, write as yourself, and write...

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