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 

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

Where We Go From Here: Writers Who Remember Freedom

Where We Go From Here: Writers Who Remember Freedom

You say you are my ally, stand up! Brush yourself off. There is no time for tears, for self-pitying platitudes. There is a rich, racist,...

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

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...

Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — Jee Leong Koh

Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — Jee Leong Koh

Who would you have nominated for this anthology? Is there a poem you have in mind that you could link to?  I am a longtime...

Report from the Field– Speak Test: The Silencing of the Racialized Body

Report from the Field– Speak Test: The Silencing of the Racialized Body

In my third year as an MFA student, I received an email from my English department requesting that I schedule and pass a Spoken English...