Genevieve Pfeiffer: You write about violence, and pain. One poem, in particular, “A Good Life” stayed with me so that I had to come back...
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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...
Dangerous Art: Thoughts on Danticat’s Immigrant Artist and the Creation Myth
My birth story is a war story. And for years, I thought birth and war were related. I first heard my birth story in the...
Submission as Social Action
Once when I was in my early 20s, the tires on my car had gone bald, and my mother offered to take me to Sears...
Finding Home Through Literature: A Study of Filipino Fiction
All my life, I felt ashamed because I was born in America. Growing up in Los Angeles, CA, in the nineties, an American, to me,...