https://www.thespeakeasyproject.net/mentors daily 0.75 2021-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1501596830324-4FINKTTWWTT1268L4JE5/image-asset.jpeg Mentor Bios https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1599934764035-IWN3XDSVBS0RCW6NK1RS/P1120836E.jpg Mentor Bios - George Abraham, Represented Artist George Abraham is a Palestinian-American Poet and Engineering PhD Candidate at Harvard University. He is the author of Birthright (Button Poetry, 2020) and two chapbooks: al youm (the Atlas Review, 2017), and the specimen’s apology (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2019). He is the recipient of fellowships from Kundiman, the Watering Hole, and Brooklyn Poets, as well as the honor of "Best Poet" at the 2017 College Union Poetry Slam Invitational. His poetry and nonfiction have appeared or are forthcoming in Tin House, Rattle, Nashville Review, the Rumpus, Washington Square Review, Puerto del Sol, and anthologies such as Bettering American Poetry, Nepantla, and the Ghassan Kanafani Palestinian Literature Anthology. He is currently an affiliated faculty member at Emerson College. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1600196326794-HEPCGCTS8UHPWYGANZQD/Rosebud%2BBen-Oni%2B2019.jpg Mentor Bios - Rosebud Ben-Oni, Represented Artist Rosebud Ben-Oni is the winner of the 2019 Alice James Award for If This Is the Age We End Discovery, forthcoming in 2021, and the author of turn around, BRXGHT XYXS (Get Fresh Books, 2019). She is a recipient of fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) and CantoMundo. Her work appears in POETRY, The American Poetry Review, POETS.org, The Poetry Review (UK), Tin House, Guernica, Black Warrior Review, Prairie Schooner, Electric Literature, TriQuarterly, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Journal ,Hunger Mountain, The Adroit Journal, The Southeast Review, North American Review, Salamander, Poetry Northwest, among others. Her poem "Poet Wrestling with Angels in the Dark" was commissioned by the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York City, and published by The Kenyon Review Online. She writes for The Kenyon Reviewblog. She is currently editing a special chemistry poetry portfolio for Pleiades, and is finishing a series called The Atomic Sonnets, in honor of the Periodic Table’s 150th Birthday. Find her at 7TrainLove.org https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1600109282938-F49B3WE6KFFIDC96HWNI/smile.jpg Mentor Bios - Luther Hughes, Represented Artist Luther Hughes, born and raised Seattle, is the author of A Shiver in the Leaves (BOA Editions, 2022) and the chapbook Touched (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2018). He is a 2020 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow, founder of Shade Literary Arts, and Executive Editor for The Offing. His work has been published in Poetry, Paris Review, The Rumpus, New England Review, and others. He is the recipient of the 2020 92Y Discovery Poetry Prize. Luther received his MFA from Washington University in St. Louis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1571532781490-H1QJACAHR359NQE90ILT/_MG_5441.1+%281%29.jpg Mentor Bios - Raina León, Represented Artist Dr. Raina J. León is an Afro-Latina writer and author of Areyto to Atabey: Essays on the Mother(ing) Self (Alley Cat Books, 2019) as well as four other poetry books. She is a full professor of English Education at Saint Mary’s College of California, founding editor of The Acentos Review, an online journal of Latinx arts, and senior poetry editor for Raising Mothers, a literary journal for BIPOC parents. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1594135529630-JG5HBKGIKVY4SDT8NJAU/image-asset.jpeg Mentor Bios - torrin a. greathouse, Represented Poet torrin a. greathouse (she/they) is a transgender, cripple-punk, MFA candidate at the University of Minnesota. They are the assistant editor of The Shallow Ends. Her work is published in POETRY, Ploughshares, & The Kenyon Review. They have received fellowships from the Effing Foundation, Zoeglossia, and the University of Arizona Poetry Center. She was a finalist for the 2020 Pushcart Prize & is the youngest ever winner of the Poetry Foundation's J. Howard and Barbara M.J. Wood Prize. They are the author of two chapbooks, Therǝ is a Case That I Ɐm (Damaged Goods, 2017) and boy/girl/ghost (TAR Chapbook Series, 2018), and her debut collection Wound from the Mouth of a Wound is forthcoming from Milkweed Editions in December 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1606163173963-MZG20Y9E6LDHUROMSZS7/4789fe_a532b32e9fe54071abf4fc34bc5887e9-mv2+%281%29.png Mentor Bios - Cynthia Dewi Oka, Represented Poet Cynthia Dewi Oka is a poet and author of Nomad of Salt and Hard Water (Thread Makes Blanket, 2016). A Pushcart Prize Nominee, her poems have appeared online and in print, including in Guernica, Black Renaissance Noire, Painted Bride Quarterly, Dusie, The Wide Shore, The Collapsar, Apogee, Kweli, As Us Journal, Obsidian, andTerrain.org. She is a contributor to the anthologies Read Women (Locked Horn Press, 2014), Dismantle (Thread Makes Blanket, 2014), and Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Frontlines (PM Press, 2016). Cynthia has been awarded the Fifth Wednesday Journal Editor’s Prize in Poetry, scholarships from the Voices of Our Nations (VONA) Writing Workshop and Vermont Studio Center, and the Art and Change Grant from Leeway Foundation. An immigrant from Bali, Indonesia, she is now based in South Jersey/Philly. Her second poetry collection is forthcoming in 2017 from Northwestern University Press. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1569196095949-IU30889HE54V1YC3JM39/LeilaChatti.jpg Mentor Bios - Leila Chatti, Current Workshop Mentor Leila Chatti is a Tunisian-American poet and author of the chapbooks Ebb (Akashic Books, New-Generation African Poets Series) and Tunsiya/Amrikiya, the 2017 Editors’ Selection from Bull City Press. She is the recipient of fellowships, scholarships, and awards from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Tin House Writers’ Workshop, The Frost Place, the Key West Literary Seminar, Dickinson House, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, and the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, where she is the 2017-2018 Ron Wallace Poetry Fellow. Her poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Tin House, The Georgia Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, New England Review, Kenyon Review Online, Narrative, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1501612241473-Q8N0V7QO47Q24IDQ3TOE/4789fe_aa80037b68794924ae8590e94891f93f-mv2_d_3456_5184_s_4_2+%281%29.jpg Mentor Bios - Julian Randall, Current Workshop Mentor Julian Randall is a Living Queer Black poet from Chicago. A Pushcart Prize nominee, he has received fellowships from Callaloo, BOAAT, and The Watering Hole, and was the 2015 National College Slam (CUPSI) Best Poet. Julian is the curator of Winter Tangerine Review’s Lineage of Mirrors and is a poetry editor for Freezeray Magazine. He is a cofounder of the Afrolatinx poetry collective Piel Cafe. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in publications such as Nepantla, Rattle Poets Respond, Ninth Letter, Vinyl, Puerto del Sol, and African Voices, among others. He is a candidate for an MFA in Poetry at The University of Mississippi. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1501612075660-3KYWPNTYJG96TP5XI5QW/4789fe_20cf76f6220a4ffc85a181ebf9fbebb1-mv2.png Mentor Bios - Chen Chen, Current Workshop Mentor Chen Chen is the author of When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities, winner of the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize and forthcoming spring 2017 from BOA Editions, Ltd. A Kundiman and Lambda Literary Fellow, Chen’s work has appeared in two chapbooks as well as in publications such as Poetry, The Massachusetts Review, The Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, Best of the Net, and The Best American Poetry. Chen helps edit Iron Horse and Gabby. He also works on a new journal called Underblong, which he co-founded with the poet Sam Herschel Wein. Chen received his MFA from Syracuse University and is currently pursuing a PhD in English and Creative Writing at Texas Tech University. He lives in Lubbock with his partner Jeff Gilbert and their pug dog Mr. Rupert Giles. For readings, workshops, and conversations about Tuxedo Mask, please send an email: chenchenwrites [at] gmail [dot] com. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1594134543879-1OKW59B29VAX6ID2R1E0/image-asset.jpeg Mentor Bios - Angel Nafis, Current Workshop Mentor Angel Nafis is the author of BlackGirl Mansion (Red Beard Press, 2012). She earned her BA at Hunter College and her MFA in poetry at Warren Wilson College. Her work has appeared in BuzzFeed Reader, them, Poetry Magazine, The BreakBeat Poets anthologies series, and elsewhere. Nafis is the recipient of fellowships from Cave Canem, Millay Colony, the Poetry Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Founder and curator of the Greenlight Bookstore Poetry Salon, she is also half of the ODES FOR YOU Tour with poet, musician, and visual artist Shira Erlichman, and with poet Morgan Parker, she runs The Other Black Girl Collective. Reading poems and facilitating workshops across the country she lives and works in Brooklyn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1539613504629-BGJOGXOYDSAPUDXDG6PH/evanson2017B.jpg Mentor Bios - Tanya Evanson, Former Workshop Mentor Tanya Evanson is an Antiguan-Canadian poet, performer, producer and arts educator from Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. She is also director of The Banff Centre Spoken Word Program, an arts residency for spoken word artists in the Rocky Mountains of Banff, Canada. A graduate of Concordia University Creative Writing and English Literature, she has been performing spoken word internationally for 20 years. In 2013, she received The Golden Beret Award for her contribution to the spoken word genre and was Poet of Honour at the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word. Notable performances include Vancouver Writers Festival, Bowery Poetry (New York), Story-Fest (Australia), Ubud Writers Festival (Indonesia), Word n Sound Festival (Johannesburg), Edinburgh Book Festival and Glastonbury Festival. With four studio albums of spoken word and music under her belt, her latest project ZENSHIP (2016 Mother Tongue Media), has received critical acclaim for pushing the boundaries between oral poetry and music. Following six artist books, Bothism (2017 Ekstasis Editions)—an experimental Sufi text—is her first published poetry collection and Nouveau Griot (2018)—collected texts from her four albums—is fresh from Frontenac House. Other recent print publications include Arc Poetry Magazine, WSQ-Feminist Press, Making Room-40 Years of Room Magazine (Caitlin Press), and Resist Much/Obey Little (Dispatches Editions). She moonlights as a whirling dervish. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1501612127669-SS68PL4ZA92H3VWDDAFW/4789fe_3060dd880c4843bba3dc23659012ccd8-mv2_d_2048_1360_s_2.jpg Mentor Bios - Paul Tran, Former Workshop Mentor Paul Tran is a Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize-nominated poet. Their work appears in MTV, Prairie Schooner, The Cortland Review, RHINO, which gave them a 2015 Editor's Prize, and elsewhere. A recipient of fellowships from Kundiman, VONA, Poets House, Lambda Literary Foundation, Napa Valley Writers Conference, Home School Miami, Vermont Studio Center, and the Conversation, Paul is also the first Asian American in almost twenty years to represent the Nuyorican Poets Cafe at the National Poetry Slam and Individual World Poetry Slam, where they placed Top 10. Paul lives in Brooklyn, where they serve as Poet-In-Residence at Urban Word NYC and Poetry Editor at The Offing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1501612316354-3YHL374E0M7BLBR66WCY/4789fe_ad0ae63da9cc44169379fbe08dd5cae2-mv2.jpg Mentor Bios - Christopher Soto, Former Workshop Mentor Christopher Soto (b. 1991, Los Angeles) is a poet based in Brooklyn, New York. He is the author of Sad Girl Poems (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2016) and the editor of Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color (Nightboat Books, 2018). He cofounded the Undocupoets Campaign and worked with Amazon Literary Partnerships to establish grants for undocumented writers. In 2017, he was awarded “The Freedom Plow Award for Poetry & Activism” by Split This Rock and he was invited to teach a “Poetry and Protest Movements” course at Columbia University, as part of the June Jordan Teaching Corp. In 2016, Poets & Writers honored Christopher Soto with the “Barnes & Nobles Writer for Writers Award.” He frequently writes book reviews for the Lambda Literary Foundation. His poems, reviews, interviews, and articles can be found at The Nation, The Guardian, The Advocate, Los Angeles Review of Books, American Poetry Review, Tin House, and more. His work has been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, and Thai. He has been invited to speak at university campuses across the country. He is currently working on a full-length poetry manuscript about police violence and mass incarceration. He received his MFA in poetry from NYU, where he was a Goldwater Hospital Writing Workshop Fellow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1522257503376-R6GOLTNUTHYF3GBXV4Z8/hooligan+cropped+2-1.png Mentor Bios - Shira Erlichman, Former Workshop Mentor Shira Erlichman is a visual artist, writer and musician. A three time Pushcart Prize nominee, her work can be found in The Huffington Post, BuzzFeed Reader, and PBS NewsHour’s Poetry Series, among others. She was awarded fellowships from the Millay Colony, the Vermont Studio Center, and AIR Serenbe. She is the author of Odes to Lithium (Alice James Books, 2019) and her first picture book Be/Hold (Penny Candy Books, 2019). Israeli-born, raised in Massachusetts, she lives with her partner and big orange cat in Brooklyn. Be/hold is her first picture book. Learn more at www.officialshira.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1522170006773-F80EVW3OH6U3RQCLA91J/IMG_7827.jpg Mentor Bios - Paige Lewis, Former Workshop Mentor Paige Lewis is the author of the chapbook Reasons to Wake You (Tupelo Press, 2018). Their poems have appeared in Poetry, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, The Georgia Review, Best New Poets 2017, and elsewhere. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1508244961737-JPV8BIHPECLCKTBHT9PH/Javier-Zamora.jpg Mentor Bios - Javier Zamora, Former Workshop Mentor Javier Zamora was born in La Herradura, El Salvador in 1990. His father fled El Salvador when he was a year old; and his mother when he was about to turn five. Both parents' migrations were caused by the US-funded Salvadoran Civil War (1980-1992). In 1999, Javier migrated through Guatemala, Mexico, and eventually the Sonoran Desert. Before a coyote abandoned his group in Oaxaca, Javier managed to make it to Arizona with the aid of other migrants. His book Unaccompanied (Copper Canyon Press, Fall 2017), explores how immigration and the civil war have impacted his family. Zamora is a 2016-2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and is a 2016 Ruth Lilly/Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow. He holds fellowships from CantoMundo, Colgate University (Olive B. O'Connor), MacDowell, Macondo, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Yaddo. In 2016, Barnes and Noble granted him the Writers for Writers Award for his work in the Undocupoets Campaign. He currently lives in San Rafael, CA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1510827092487-V5SAQZWSRQD0W2N62YJJ/Bio+Photo.jpeg Mentor Bios - Hanif Abdurraqib, Former Workshop Mentor Hanif Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. His first collection of poems, The Crown Ain't Worth Much was released in 2016 and was nominated for the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award. His first collection of essays, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us, was released in fall 2017 by Two Dollar Radio. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1502380870210-A1GP5G993MPVSBHRAYUY/O%27Neill+Author+Photo.jpg Mentor Bios - Emily O'Neill, Former Workshop Mentor Emily O'Neill teaches writing and tends bar in Boston, MA. Her debut poetry collection, Pelican, is the inaugural winner of YesYes Books' Pamet River Prize for women and nonbinary writers as well as the winner of the 2016 Devil's Kitchen Reading Series. Her second collection, a falling knife has no handle, is forthcoming from YesYes in 2018. She is the author of four chapbooks and her recent work has appeared in Cutbank, Jellyfish, Redivider, Salt Hill, and Washington Square. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1502384647789-EF7FG0R2EDLG7XXPG2RI/Amezcua_author.jpg Mentor Bios - Eloisa Amezcua, Former Workshop Mentor Eloisa Amezcua is an Arizona native. Her debut collection, From the Inside Quietly, is the inaugural winner of the Shelterbelt Poetry Prize selected by Ada Limón. She is the author of three chapbooks and is the founder and editor of The Shallow Ends: A Journal of Poetry. You can find her at www.eloisaamezcua.com. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1505825511686-SYSMYFPSVA11L99AAUU3/kq+roxborough+3+WEB.jpg Mentor Bios - Khadijah Queen, Former Guest Lecturer Khadijah Queen is the author of the poetry collections Conduit (Akashic Books 2008), Black Peculiar (Noemi Press 2011), Fearful Beloved (Argos Books 2015) and a verse play, Non-Sequitur, which won the Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Performance Writers and was published by Litmus Press. The Relationship theater company also staged a full production in December 2015 at Theaterlab NYC. Her fifth book, I'm So Fine: A List of Famous Men & What I Had On, was a finalist for the National Poetry Series and published by YesYes Books in 2017. Individual poems and prose appear in Fence, Tin House, Gulf Coast, Buzzfeed, The Poetry Review (UK), Best American Nonrequired Reading, Fire & Ink: A Social Action Anthology and widely elsewhere. She teaches in the low residency Mile-High MFA program at Regis University, and is a Visiting Scholar in Creative Writing at University of Colorado, Boulder. Visit her website: khadijahqueen.com. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1501595679351-B9EDEQL29JQO8KIEPQ6Y/4789fe_0e30a1830c5f445c8237197646470466-mv2.jpg Mentor Bios https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1501612044172-I16KVWEFW6T0GQKO0J2B/4789fe_6a1613e823fe48b8994654170413a0f2-mv2+%281%29.png Mentor Bios - Danez Smith, Former Workshop Mentor Danez Smith is the author of [insert] boy (2014, YesYes Books), winner of the 2016 Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the 2014 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. Their second collection, Don't Call Us Dead, will be published by Graywolf Press in 2017. They are also the author of two chapbooks, hands on ya knees and black movie, winner of the Button Poetry Prize. Their work has published and featured widely, including in Poetry Magazine, Beloit Poetry Journal, Buzzfeed, Blavity, & Ploughshares. They are a 2014 Ruth Lilly - Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellow, a Cave Canem and VONA alum, and a recipient of a McKnight Foundation Fellowship. Danez is a two-time Individual World Poetry Slam finalist, placing second in 2014. They edit for The Offing are a founding member of two collectives, Dark Noise and Sad Boy Supper Club. Danez lives in the midwest most of the time. Danez was featured in the American Academy of Poet's Emerging Writers Series by National Book Award Finalist Patricia Smith. Like her, Danez bridges the poetics of the stage to that of the page. Danez's work transcends arbitrary boundaries to present work that is gripping, dismantling of oppression constructs, and striking on the human heart. Often centered around intersections of race, class, sexuality, faith, and social justice, Danez uses rhythm, fierce raw power, and image to re-imagine the world as takes it apart in their work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1501612028444-K2CQPZDK5CUB2ADXFSW5/4789fe_4feabae0df7e4c0ab86283afd00c3f3a-mv2+%281%29.png Mentor Bios - Mahogany Browne, Former Workshop Mentor Mahogany L. Browne is a California-born, Brooklyn-based writer, educator, activist, mentor, and curator. The Cave Canem and Poets House alumnae is the author of several books, including Dear Twitter: Love Letters Hashed Out On-line, recommended by Small Press Distribution & About.com's Best Poetry Books of 2010. She has released five LPs, including the live album Sheroshima. As co-founder of the Off-Broadway poetry production, Jam On It, and co-producer of NYC’s 1st Performance Poetry Festival: SoundBites Poetry Festival, Mahogany bridges the gap between lyrical poets and literary emcee. Browne has toured Germany, Amsterdam, England, Canada, and recently Australia as 1/3 of the cultural arts exchange project Global Poetics. Her journalism work has been published in magazines such as Uptown, KING, XXL, The Source, Canada’s The Word, and UK’s MOBO. Her poetry has been published in the literary journals Pluck, Manhattanville Review, Muzzle, Union Station Mag, Literary Bohemian, Bestiary, Joint, and The Feminist Wire. In 2015, she released several poetry collections, including Smudge (Button Poetry), Redbone (Willow Books), and the anthology The Break Beat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop (Haymarket). She is an Urban Word NYC mentor, as seen on HBO’s Brave New Voices, and facilitates performance poetry and writing workshops throughout the country. Brown is also the publisher of Penmanship Books, the Nuyorican Poets Café Poetry Program Director and Friday Night Slam curator, and currently an MFA Candidate for Writing and Activism at Pratt Institute. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1501612154579-ZHJ6OGM59HTHHMEKXXES/4789fe_40955fcfb196420ba02618c2a3a8d418-mv2.jpeg Mentor Bios - Natalie Scenters-Zapico, Former Workshop Mentor Natalie Scenters-Zapico is from the sister cities of El Paso, Texas, U.S.A. and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, México. In 2015, she published her debut poetry collection The Verging Cities (Center For Literary Publishing), which won the PEN American/Joyce Osterweil Award, the GLCA’s New Writers Award, the National Association of Chicana/o Studies Book Award, and the Utah Book Award. The Verging Cities was also featured in Poets and Writers, LitHub, and The Los Angeles Times. A CantoMundo fellow, her poems can be found in POETRY, Best American Poetry 2015, American Poets, The Believer, The Boston Review, and more. Learn more at nataliescenterszapico.com or follow her on twitter @nascenters. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1501612059945-NPZVTXZQ00H025WC3MOO/4789fe_8c653ef1f899441abf8b7556d8e3c859-mv2+%281%29.png Mentor Bios - Fatimah Asghar, Former Workshop Mentor Fatimah Asghar is a nationally touring poet, performer, educator, and writer. Her work has appeared in many journals, including POETRY Magazine, Gulf Coast, BuzzFeed Reader, The Margins, The Offing, Academy of American Poets, and many others. Her work has been featured on new outlets like PBS, Teen Vogue, Huffington Post, and others. In 2011, she created Bosnia and Herzegovina’s first Spoken Word Poetry group, REFLEKS, while on a Fulbright studying theater in post-genocidal countries. She is a member of the Dark Noise Collective and a Kundiman Fellow. Her chapbook, After, came out on Yes Yes Books in fall 2015. She is the writer of Brown Girls, a web series that highlights friendships between women of color. Currently, she is an MFA candidate at the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1501612095912-124J087H1UHRRCGRF2DJ/4789fe_2222a933aaf84285bbd03170ee215180-mv2+%281%29.png Mentor Bios - Melissa Lozada-Oliva, Former Workshop Mentor Melissa Lozada-Oliva is a spoken word poet and bookstore babe living in Boston. A gap-toothed bruja, Melissa believes in awkward silences, being loud, and saying no. Her poetry tries to capture the feeling her parents get when they meet someone from their home country and the feeling she gets when she’s late to a party. She is a National Poetry Slam Champion (2015) and a Brenda Mosey Video Slam Winner (2015). She has previously been published in Electric Cereal, Jaded Ibis Press, Microchondria, and The Guardian. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1501612015074-Y22JEHK9N9OAE45ILG5G/4789fe_1903e78f36d5402cacee2b306c77465e-mv2.jpg Mentor Bios - Jennifer Givhan, Former Workshop Mentor Jennifer Givhan is a Mexican-American poet from the Southwestern desert. She is the author of the full-length collectionsLandscape with Headless Mama, which won the 2015 Pleiades Editors' Prize, and Protection Spell, winner of U. of Arkansas Press's 2016 Miller Williams Series Prize, and two poetry chapbooks, Curanderisma (Dancing Girl Press, forthcoming 2016) and The Daughter's Curse (ELJ, forthcoming 2017). Her honors include an NEA Fellowship, a PEN/Rosenthal Emerging Voices Fellowship, The Frost Place Latin@ Scholarship, The 2015 Lascaux Review Poetry Prize, The Pinch Poetry Prize, and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Best of the Net 2015, Best New Poets 2013, AGNI, TriQuarterly, Crazyhorse, Blackbird, The Kenyon Review, Rattle, Prairie Schooner, Indiana Review, and Southern Humanities Review (where she was a finalist for the 2015 Auburn Witness Prize). She is Poetry Editor at Tinderbox Poetry Journal and teaches online workshops at The Poetry Barn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1501612336344-IPAW4FBK6VWGB0KAQRZ0/4789fe_d3eb027e791a49c8b46e36fe776da1e1-mv2+%281%29.jpg Mentor Bios - Cynthia Cruz, Former Workshop Mentor Cynthia Cruz is the author of four collections of poetry, including three with Four Way Books: The Glimmering Room (2012), Wunderkammer (2014), and How the End Begins (2016). Cruz has received fellowships from Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony, as well as a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University. She has an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College in writing and an MFA in Art Criticism and Writing from the School of Visual Arts. Cruz is currently pursuing a PhD in German Studies at Rutgers University and teaches at Sarah Lawrence College. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1501612361176-UBMIO4EGKO4A13PX4KQK/4789fe_dd60e97c74be4acda1f6a806416b13ce-mv2_d_2784_1856_s_2.jpg Mentor Bios - Cathy Linh Che, Former Workshop Mentor Cathy Linh Che is the author of the poetry collection, Split (Alice James Books), winner of the Kundiman Poetry Prize, the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America, and the Best Poetry Book Award from the Association of Asian American Studies. Contact Cathy at cathylinhche [at] gmail [dot] com. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1501612406347-LAQOCAOWO017MQNXDUMC/4789fe_ec59f041ef8c4faf910780a3a7639bc6-mv2_d_1733_1735_s_2.jpg Mentor Bios - Kaveh Akbar, Former Workshop Mentor Kaveh Akbar's poems appear recently or soon in The New Yorker, Poetry, APR, Ploughshares, PBS NewsHour, and elsewhere. His debut full-length collection, Calling a Wolf a Wolf, will be published by Alice James Books in Fall 2017; he is also the author of the chapbook Portrait of the Alcoholic. A recipient of the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation and the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, Kaveh was born in Tehran, Iran, and currently lives and teaches in Florida. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1501595975287-9LPV51D98XPZM46RVXI7/4789fe_0e30a1830c5f445c8237197646470466-mv2.jpg Mentor Bios https://www.thespeakeasyproject.net/staff-bios daily 0.75 2025-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1589659576303-5RV95OBKXORUBGNTRXRY/4789fe_d7a30bfca0784778ac123885fb467b8b-mv2.jpg STAFF - Tyler Tsay, Executive Director Tyler Tsay is the former co-founder of The Blueshift Journal. His work, both past and upcoming, has been or will be published in The Offing, The Margins: Asian American Writers Workshop, DIAGRAM, Vinyl Poetry and others. He is the recipient of the Bullock Poetry Prize, awarded by the Academy of American Poets and judged by Camille Rankine, and has formerly worked at BEOTIS Creative and BOAAT Press. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1589659576303-5RV95OBKXORUBGNTRXRY/4789fe_d7a30bfca0784778ac123885fb467b8b-mv2.jpg STAFF - Tyler Tsay, Executive Director Tyler Tsay is the former co-founder of The Blueshift Journal. His work, both past and upcoming, has been or will be published in The Offing, The Margins: Asian American Writers Workshop, DIAGRAM, Vinyl Poetry and others. He is the recipient of the Bullock Poetry Prize, awarded by the Academy of American Poets and judged by Camille Rankine, and has formerly worked at BEOTIS Creative and BOAAT Press. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1501613269493-XS8CE4WQMZZVKHFIM159/4789fe_b437e53416d04fe283e52a8d2e289abe-mv2+%281%29.jpeg STAFF https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1751656253976-XOG7QZXM7E5T1NL3WISX/872D36EE-DDF6-414D-92A4-FB297E4F3E43_1_105_c.jpeg STAFF - Jen Luo, Managing Director https://www.thespeakeasyproject.net/lecturers daily 0.75 2020-09-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1571185900853-24VEW9WLIVB1I95PZCKQ/4789fe_9c899969fb9e495bb2313144c9d6e717-mv2.jpg Lecturer Bios - Raina León, Instructor Raina J. León, Cave Canem graduate fellow (2006), CantoMundo fellow, Macondo fellow, and member of the Carolina African American Writers Collective, has been published in numerous journals as a writer of poetry, fiction and nonfiction. Her first collection of poetry, Canticle of Idols, was a finalist for both the Cave Canem First Book Poetry Prize (2005) and the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize (2006). Her second book, Boogeyman Dawn (2013, Salmon Poetry), was a finalist for the Naomi Long Madgett Prize (2010). Her third book, sombra : (dis)locate, was published in 2016 as well as her first chapbook, profeta without refuge. She has received fellowships and residencies with Cave Canem, CantoMundo, Montana Artists Refuge, the Macdowell Colony, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Vermont Studio Center, the Tyrone Guthrie Center in Annamaghkerrig, Ireland and Ragdale. She also is a founding editor of The Acentos Review, an online quarterly, international journal devoted to the promotion and publication of Latino and Latina arts. She is an associate professor of education at Saint Mary’s College of California. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1571185900853-24VEW9WLIVB1I95PZCKQ/4789fe_9c899969fb9e495bb2313144c9d6e717-mv2.jpg Lecturer Bios - Raina León, Instructor Raina J. León, Cave Canem graduate fellow (2006), CantoMundo fellow, Macondo fellow, and member of the Carolina African American Writers Collective, has been published in numerous journals as a writer of poetry, fiction and nonfiction. Her first collection of poetry, Canticle of Idols, was a finalist for both the Cave Canem First Book Poetry Prize (2005) and the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize (2006). Her second book, Boogeyman Dawn (2013, Salmon Poetry), was a finalist for the Naomi Long Madgett Prize (2010). Her third book, sombra : (dis)locate, was published in 2016 as well as her first chapbook, profeta without refuge. She has received fellowships and residencies with Cave Canem, CantoMundo, Montana Artists Refuge, the Macdowell Colony, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Vermont Studio Center, the Tyrone Guthrie Center in Annamaghkerrig, Ireland and Ragdale. She also is a founding editor of The Acentos Review, an online quarterly, international journal devoted to the promotion and publication of Latino and Latina arts. She is an associate professor of education at Saint Mary’s College of California. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1517848101410-QOFBZNM8VJ0QL18S7WOV/SereneHakimPhoto.JPG Lecturer Bios - Serene Hakim (Ayesha Pande Literary), Guest Lecturer Prior to joining Ayesha Pande Literary, Serene Hakim worked at Laura Gross Literary Agency in Boston. She has also interned at David Godine Publisher and Chase Literary Agency. Serene holds an M.A. in French to English translation from NYU and a B.A. in French and Women’s Studies from the University of Kansas. She loves to read a variety of genres, but is particularly drawn to fiction with strong female voices, both YA and adult fiction and non-fiction with international themes, and LGBTQ and feminist issues. She is always on the lookout for great YA sci-fi and fantasy, realistic YA, and anything that gives voice to those whose voices are underrepresented and/or marginalized. As a child of Lebanese immigrants, she is especially interested in stories dealing with the Middle East and the variety of immigrant experiences out there. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1546959813788-6NNC81J8CCD14W2ZOO8S/Amezcua_by+Chris+Cheney.jpg Lecturer Bios - Eloisa Amezcua, Guest Lecturer Eloisa Amezcua is from Arizona. Her debut collection, From the Inside Quietly, is the inaugural winner of the Shelterbelt Poetry Prize selected by Ada Limón. A MacDowell fellow, she is the author of three chapbooks and founder/editor-in-chief of The Shallow Ends: A Journal of Poetry. Her poems and translations are published in New York Times Magazine, Poetry Magazine, Kenyon Review, Gulf Coast, and others. Eloisa lives in Columbus, OH and is the founder of Costura Creative. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1546560893711-0IBDJOK4MKZNB3BI67I4/Monika+Woods+B+%26+W%2C+photo%2C+hi+res.jpg Lecturer Bios - Monika Woods, Guest Lecturer Monika Woods is a literary agent at Curtis Brown, Ltd. She is a graduate of the Columbia Publishing Course and has worked at Trident Media Group and InkWell Management, where she worked closely with leading voices in contemporary literature. Her interests include literary and compelling non-fiction in food, popular culture, journalism, science, and current affairs. Monika is particularly excited about plot-driven literary novels, non-fiction that is creatively critical, unique perspectives, a great cookbook, and above all, original prose. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1522175624397-HSSHJC8FKFK88NB0PBXC/DSC_9209.jpg Lecturer Bios - Marcelo Castillo, Guest Lecturer Marcelo Hernandez Castillo is a poet, essayist, and translator. He is the author of Cenzontle, which was chosen by Brenda Shaughnessy as the winner of the 2017 A. Poulin, Jr. prize (BOA editions 2018). His first chapbook, DULCE, was chosen by Chris Abani as the winner of the Drinking Gourd Prize published by Northwestern University Press. His memoir, Children of the Land is forthcoming from Harper Collins Publishers. He was born in Zacatecas, Mexico. He holds a B.A. from Sacramento State University and was the first undocumented student to graduate from the Helen Zell Writers Program at the University of Michigan. He cofounded the Undocupoets campaign which successfully eliminated citizenship requirements from all major first poetry book prizes in the country and was recognized with the Barnes and Noble “Writers for Writers” award. His work appeared or is featured in The New York Times, The Paris Review, People Magazine, PBS Newshour, Fusion TV, New England Review, Gulf Coast, Buzzfeed, Indiana Review, and Southern Humanities Review, among others. He lives in Marysville, California and teaches at the Ashland University MFA program. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1501614054093-U9PYMMF4TC9WFV25WFK4/4789fe_9c899969fb9e495bb2313144c9d6e717-mv2.jpg Lecturer Bios https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1522175707825-1UOHEVHFWK6A9BQLEWEQ/Vanessa+Ma%CC%81rtir+headshot.jpg Lecturer Bios - Vanessa Mártir, Guest Lecturer Vanessa Mártir is a NYC based writer, educator and writing coach. She is currently completing her memoir, A Dim Capacity for Wings, and chronicles the journey at vanessamartir.blog. A five-time VONA/Voices and two-time Tin House fellow, Vanessa’s work has appeared in The Butter, Smokelong Quarterly, Kweli Journal, As/Us Journal, the VONA/Voices Anthology, Dismantle, and Roxane Gay's anthology Not that Bad, among others. She is the creator of the Writing Our Lives Workshop and the Writing the Mother Wound Class, which she teaches in NYC and online. When not writing or teaching, you can find Vanessa either on a dance floor, in a gym punching a bag or hiking in the woods. vanessamartir.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1522684179504-WLQ6UCISE5KV0BUFE074/29893977_2044583538902775_1617191115_o.jpg Lecturer Bios - J. K. Fowler, Guest Lecturer J. K. Fowler is the founder and executive director of Nomadic Press, a community-focused literary and arts non-profit with operations in Oakland, CA, Des Moines, IA, and Brooklyn, NY. He also serves as the Director of Operations at Harm Reduction Coalition, a national advocacy and capacity-building organization that promotes the health and dignity of individuals and communities impacted by drug use. He is a part-time lecturer in the Sociology and Anthropology Department at Rutgers University Newark where he teaches on issues ranging from postcolonialism to deviance and the nature of work, and serves on Cogswell College's English and Humanities Professional Advisory Board. He also sits on the board of North Atlantic Books, headquartered in Berkeley. He has been published in a wide range of publications, including Bay Area Reporter, Eleven Eleven, Foglifter, COG Magazine, and elsewhere, has performed across the Bay Area and Brooklyn, and has been featured in a number of radio shows and online podcasts, including KPFA, Fuel My Fiction, StoryCorps, and others. He is the recipient of the 2016 Alameda County Arts Leadership Award and travels this world with a Kelpie named Stella. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1599929279493-09H4XJY1JOM4WXHYJMSR/Natasha%2BMarin%2BBio%2BPic%2B-%2BErika%2BSchultz%2B2017.jpg Lecturer Bios - Natasha Marin, Guest Lecturer Natasha Marin is a conceptual artist whose people-centered projects have circled the globe since 2012 and have been recognized and acknowledged by Art Forum, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the LA Times, NBC, Al Jazeera, Vice, PBS and others. This year, the City of Seattle and King County have backed BLACK IMAGINATION-- a series of conceptual exhibitions. Black Imagination has engaged (and paid!) black folks from all over the PNW region and the world-- amplifying, centering, and holding sacred a diverse sample of voices including LGBTQIA+ black youth, incarcerated black women, black folks with disabilities, unsheltered black folks, and black children. The viral web-based project, Reparations, engaged a quarter of a million people worldwide in the practice of "leveraging privilege," and earned Marin, a mother of two, death threats by the dozens. As a busy consultant and community builder, Natasha was listed as one of 30 women who "Run This City" by Seattle Met magazine in 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1599929292659-IFT2A6XI4MX7BX0Z575T/Henry+Goldkamp+Aura+Portrait.png Lecturer Bios - Henry Goldklamp, Guest Lecturer Henry Goldkamp has lived against the Mississippi his entire life. His work appears in many journals, most recently Cutbank, Xavier Review, glitterMOB,Permafrost, Notre Dame Review, and The Cape Rock. Last year (2017) his work was nominated for a Pushcart and two Best of the Nets. He is the recipient of the Ryan Chighizola Award for poetry from University of New Orleans, and his Bad Beach manuscript was named a finalist in Yemassee’s 2018 Chapbook Contest. His short story "The Manner of Your Scramble" was awarded the Richard Cortez Day Prize from Humboldt State University. His public art projects have been covered by Time and NPR. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1501614171534-O2IIWSPR0KC5AT2JLAX1/4789fe_0e30a1830c5f445c8237197646470466-mv2.jpg Lecturer Bios - A.J. Alana Ka'imi Bryce, Guest Lecturer A.J. Alana Ka'imi Bryce is a musician and multimedia artist. As creative director of Trans-Genre, a transgender artists showcase, and publisher of Trans-Genre Press, he has produced CDs, and published queer/trans people of color–centered books by Ryka Aoki, Kit Yan, Helen Klonaris, and Amir Rabiyah. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1519400747126-WBTM2FBSHZOSRTLBIZ0H/KimaJones-PhotoCredit_VanessaAcosta.jpg Lecturer Bios - Kima Jones (Jack Jones Literary Arts), Guest Speaker Kima Jones has received fellowships from PEN Center USA Emerging Voices, Kimbilio Fiction, Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and was included on the inaugural Bitch 50 list in 2017 as a "shape-shifter who pushed pop culture to be more representative, inspiring, and meaningful for communities who are typically ignored by mainstream media." The Los Angeles Times called Kima "2018's literary breakthrough" and "an important new voice on the national stage." She has been published at Poets and Writers, GQ, Guernica, NPR, PANK and the Rumpus and in the anthologies Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History, Her Own Accord: American Women on Identity, Culture, and Community and the New York Times Best Seller, The Fire this Time, edited by Jesmyn Ward. Her short story "Nine" received notable mention in Best American Science Fiction 2015, and her hybrid poem "Homegoing AD" appears in Best American Nonrequired Reading 2017. She serves as an advisory board member for the Rumpus, the Anisfield-Wolf Fellowship and the World Play Literary Festival. Kima founded Jack Jones Literary Arts in March 2015 and works as lead strategist on all publicity campaigns and is especially proud of her work on the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry winner, Olio, by Tyehimba Jess; the 2017 PEN America Robert W. Bingham Emerging Fiction Prize winner, Insurrections, by Rion Amilcar Scott; and the 2017 Midland Authors Award winner in Adult Fiction, Know the Mother, by Desiree Cooper. Kima divides her time between Los Angeles and New York. She writes poetry and prose. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1501614214862-BJJK95F078FJWRXODFE5/4789fe_b45790ec55044809873eb3bfe8e5aa9e-mv2.jpg Lecturer Bios - Arisa White, Guest Lecturer Arisa White is a Cave Canem fellow and the author of You’re the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened, Black Pearl, Post Pardon, Hurrah’s Nest, and A Penny Saved. With funding from the City of Oakland, Post Pardon was adapted into an opera. As a 2013-14 recipient of an Investing in Artists grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation, Arisa self-published dear Gerald, a collection of epistolary poems addressed to her estranged father, and then traveled to Guyana to give him a copy of the book. Her debut collection, Hurrah’s Nest, won the 2012 San Francisco Book Festival Award for poetry and was nominated for a 44th NAACP Image Award, the 82nd California Book Awards, and the 2013 Wheatley Book Awards. Member of the PlayGround writers’ pool, her play Frigidare was staged for the 15th Annual Best of PlayGround Festival. She has received residencies, fellowships, or scholarships from Headlands Center for the Arts, Port Townsend Writers’ Conference, Rose O’Neill Literary House, Squaw Valley Community of Writers, Hedgebrook, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Prague Summer Program, Fine Arts Work Center, and Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Arisa’s poetry is featured on the album WORD with the Jessica Jones Quartet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1501614189670-1DE5FYI2B7MAHHUD9YJA/4789fe_534c000e4673414996c9bbc1151bd67d-mv2.jpg Lecturer Bios - Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán, Guest Lecturer Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán is the author of _Antes y después del Bronx: Lenapehoking_, winner of the New American Press Chapbook Contest; and the editor of an international queer Indigenous issue of _Yellow Medicine Review: A Journal of Indigenous Literature, Art, and Thought_. A Brooklyn College M.F.A., he is an American Studies Ph.D. candidate at Michigan State University. A community organizer for over two decades, his award-winning poetry and nonfiction appear in over a hundred seventy publications in twenty nations in Africa, the Américas, Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Pacific. Places of publication include Aotearoa/New Zealand, Australia, Austria, Barbados, Canada, England, France, Hawai'i, Hong Kong, Ireland, Morocco, Northern Ireland, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Scotland, South Africa, St. Croix, Sweden, and Wales. The author of a second poetry collection, _South Bronx Breathing Lessons_, he is completing _Yerbabuena/Mala yerba, All My Roots Need Rain: mixed-blood poetry & prose_ and _Heart of the Nation: Indigenous Womanisms, Queer People of Color, and Native Sovereignties_. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1501614248944-E1D1YYT7NHFQ54D0MA5Y/4789fe_c9d05beddfee41be84e9c87cc296a367-mv2.jpg Lecturer Bios - Sarah Rafael García, Guest Lecturer Sarah Rafael García was born in Brownsville, Texas and raised in Orange County, California. She started writing after her father's passing in 1988. She obtained a Bachelors of Science in Sociology at Texas State University, is bilingual in Spanish and knows enough Mandarin to speak to pre-k students and taxi drivers in China. She has lived in Beijing and has traveled to various countries including a three-month backpacking adventure in Australia. She is an active writer, blogger, community educator and published author who strives to advocate for human rights. Since the publication of Las Niñas, A Collection of Childhood Memories in 2008, she has continued to share her writings and community outreach by founding Barrio Writers in 2009, a reading and writing program aimed to empower youth through creative writing, higher education and the cultural arts and Wild Womyn Writers in 2010, community workshops that create spaces that help womyn explore their creative spirits, free themselves from societal restrictions and learn to embrace their natural instincts. Most recently, her essay “Crossing Borders” was published in Connotation Press in April 2011. 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León Author of Areyto to Atabey: Essays on the Mother(ing) Self (Alley Cat Books, 2019) Full Professor of English Education at Saint Mary’s College of California https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1602694114995-UK0385KD40B2C2VC9JS3/image-asset.jpeg Home - Cynthia Dewi Oka Author of A Tinderbox in Three Acts (BOA Editions, 2022) Faculty at the Writers' Program at UCLA Extension and Recipient of the 2021-2022 Amy Clampitt Residency https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1634401528775-VEXLOFF0W44DSUEHY83E/Wilson-K-web-lighter-scaled-1-edit.jpg Home - Keith S. Wilson Author of Fieldnotes on Ordinary Love (Copper Canyon Press, 2019) 2019 National Endowment for the Arts Recipient https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/82a9dc81-e377-4012-a275-9f5733bab26d/DarrelAlejandroHolnes081221_047BeowulfSheehan+%281%29.jpg Home - Darrel Alejandro Holnes Author of Stemotherland (Northwestern University Press, 2021) 2019 National Endowment of the Arts Recipient and winner of the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/fdb28b30-52be-48ce-a65e-0f87ace6fa26/CWTSXFQCH4I6TLDG2CO4FHYPYM.jpg Home - Porsha Olayiwola Author of i shimmer sometimes, too (Button Poetry) Individual World Poetry Slam Champion and 2022 Boston Poet Laureate https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/69348831-c6ef-4491-82ec-b1ec764179f1/in+the+sun.jpg Home - Maya Salameh Winner of the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize and finalist for the California Book Award https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/4043ace3-9b48-454f-a51a-8416f468af10/ariana+brown+headshot+2+%281%29.jpg Home - Ariana Brown Author of We Are Owed. (Grieveland, 2021) and Sana Sana (Game Over Books, 2020) 2019 National Association of Latino Arts and Culture Grant Recipient https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1600051720433-I7TSVPCF7APVDXT9I0W1/George+Abraham.png Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1600051727840-BTLW5YINNOU9I4HCCL31/Raina.png Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1600051724266-58K2A59WD3U6FTT3VNIV/Luther+Hughes.png Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1600051728191-9T0EPNGAEWLG8DKQ86MA/Rosebud.png Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1600051730817-LD2TI3UW9AH9Z1TOXQ0H/torrin+a.+greathouse+.png Home https://www.thespeakeasyproject.net/write-side-by-side-photos daily 0.75 2020-08-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1595288318545-60R4K9K8P3D1RLMMZYDT/Annotation%2B2020-07-20%2B192422.jpg Write Side By Side photos - Write Side By Side: Liberation Stories generative writing for social change Perhaps you have felt alone before in your writing and activist work, particularly in the pandemic. Perhaps you have felt the weight of always being called upon to explain your right to breathe and live free. 2020 has shown itself to be a time of consciousness raising and change. This workshop centers the voices and experiences of BIPOC writers (and those who would like to use writing as a medium) to do the work of revolution, reconciliation, and reckoning. We have been guided by visionaries long before now. Those in power have always feared philosophers and artists; we are those who conceptualize and inspire change. In this month of daily prompts, we will study the work of such movement prophets, philosophers, and artists across disciplines while we write for social change and action. We will study as inspiration the work of folks like June Jordan, Melvin Dixon, Marsha P. Johnson, Aurora Levins Morales, Camille Dungy, Octavia Butler, Natasha Marin, Regie Cabico, Pamela K. Santos, Barbara Jane Reyes, Tongo Eisen-Martin, Shin Yu Pai and more. We are called to radical imagination of the world as it could be and a true reckoning with what it is. Together we will dare to write our liberation stories in the now and for the future. We can also hold the intention of healing ourselves/communities/ancestors/more through the liberatory practice of visioning, writing, and enacting a new day. Upcoming sessions: Sept 15 to Oct 15, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1595288318545-60R4K9K8P3D1RLMMZYDT/Annotation%2B2020-07-20%2B192422.jpg Write Side By Side photos - Write Side By Side: Liberation Stories generative writing for social change Perhaps you have felt alone before in your writing and activist work, particularly in the pandemic. Perhaps you have felt the weight of always being called upon to explain your right to breathe and live free. 2020 has shown itself to be a time of consciousness raising and change. This workshop centers the voices and experiences of BIPOC writers (and those who would like to use writing as a medium) to do the work of revolution, reconciliation, and reckoning. We have been guided by visionaries long before now. Those in power have always feared philosophers and artists; we are those who conceptualize and inspire change. In this month of daily prompts, we will study the work of such movement prophets, philosophers, and artists across disciplines while we write for social change and action. We will study as inspiration the work of folks like June Jordan, Melvin Dixon, Marsha P. Johnson, Aurora Levins Morales, Camille Dungy, Octavia Butler, Natasha Marin, Regie Cabico, Pamela K. Santos, Barbara Jane Reyes, Tongo Eisen-Martin, Shin Yu Pai and more. We are called to radical imagination of the world as it could be and a true reckoning with what it is. Together we will dare to write our liberation stories in the now and for the future. We can also hold the intention of healing ourselves/communities/ancestors/more through the liberatory practice of visioning, writing, and enacting a new day. Upcoming sessions: Sept 15 to Oct 15, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1595288344595-YQSRJ4XMQ3FY3AOU440R/Annotation%2B2020-07-20%2B193329.jpg Write Side By Side photos - Write Side By Side: (Re)generate generative writing across genre and literary forms (BIPOC only) In this workshop, co-learners will engage in daily writing, workshop, and accountability partners in line with the Write Side by Side practices with a core focus on craft. Prompts are built around literary craft readings to push an exploration of form in poetry and prose. In addition, in the last two weeks of the class, prompts are personalized according to the interests (in subject, genre, and craft aspect) of the persons in the class. Upcoming sessions: Feb 1 to March 1, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1595288362595-Q56VJV9UVSCVS1VQM05W/Annotation%2B2020-07-20%2B193153.jpg Write Side By Side photos - Write Side By Side: Poetry Beyond generative writing using poetry as inspiration How do you paint the page with language brush strokes? How might you transmute your hand into a wand set to create a new reality? This is the class where poets are invited into a practice with magic or an intention-based conjuring of visions on the page and beyond it. In this workshop, core inspiration readings will come from contemporary queer and BIPOC writers (across genre who explore poetic sensibilities in stanza or in prose) while prompts will incorporate explorations of poetic practice. This is a class for any writer who wants to expand their literary toolbox towards greater invention in vision and language. Upcoming sessions: April 1 to May 1, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1595288299342-4SJNOMQSC67WZR1GDR6I/Annotation%2B2020-07-20%2B193523.jpg Write Side By Side photos - Write Side By Side: Wild Hybrid hybridity and hybrid texts across all artistic disciplines and practices BREAK FREE! In this class, we go wild and explore artistic practices across disciplines as a way of inspiring our writing. Take an Afro Beat dance class, spend a day listening to punk, immerse yourself in the bounty of sound in an opera, take a chipped plate and smash it to pieces! All of these practices and more support an embodied exploration of creativity. We work together to identity the daily joys in our creative practice of wonder and discovery. And joy is something that this class celebrates! Writing can sometimes feel weighted for so many different reasons. In this class, we encourage shaking loose of shame or fear or false modesty or self-doubt. Your work is urgent and necessary and transformational! Together we learn strategies to push beyond our limits and the limits of our knowledge or the form of our work to something decidedly new, exciting, and welcome in its shock and glory. Upcoming sessions: July 1 to July 31, 2021 https://www.thespeakeasyproject.net/contact-buttons daily 0.75 2020-09-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1599936361003-C69B0G8LP3MBCWW7LHGD/Screenshot+2020-09-12+144056.jpg contact buttons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1599936361003-C69B0G8LP3MBCWW7LHGD/Screenshot+2020-09-12+144056.jpg contact buttons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1599936361162-RHH2VXVBPI2K56JSUN4F/Screenshot+2020-09-12+144038.jpg contact buttons https://www.thespeakeasyproject.net/cover daily 0.75 2025-08-12 https://www.thespeakeasyproject.net/contact-us daily 0.75 2025-08-12 https://www.thespeakeasyproject.net/staff daily 0.75 2023-09-26 https://www.thespeakeasyproject.net/apps daily 0.75 2021-07-01 https://www.thespeakeasyproject.net/group-1-paul-tran daily 0.75 2018-03-19 https://www.thespeakeasyproject.net/group-6-jennifer-givhan daily 0.75 2018-03-19 https://www.thespeakeasyproject.net/group-2-christopher-soto daily 0.75 2018-03-19 https://www.thespeakeasyproject.net/group-5-chen-chen daily 0.75 2020-05-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1590683003711-4UX5MNI7UFG7P5QYSKG1/Annotation+2020-05-28+121627.jpg Group 5: Chen Chen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1590682881341-KSVA3X8OWGVII0547WV2/Annotation+2020-05-28+121733.jpg Group 5: Chen Chen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1590682881382-P643NZW2SA5DZIZFS0SM/Annotation+2020-05-28+121718.jpg Group 5: Chen Chen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1590682882011-4LHGFY00L0M40X3I2069/Annotation+2020-05-28+121656.jpg Group 5: Chen Chen https://www.thespeakeasyproject.net/group-3-cathy-linh-che daily 0.75 2018-03-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1522342635443-S9LJPLTKR0MQCTGLZG1I/Screen+Shot+2018-03-29+at+12.56.56+PM.png Group 3: Cathy Linh Che https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1522345593922-CN4KRXZAG8TIPTLZNLOM/Screen+Shot+2018-03-29+at+1.46.20+PM.png Group 3: Cathy Linh Che https://www.thespeakeasyproject.net/group-4-kaveh-akbar daily 0.75 2018-03-19 https://www.thespeakeasyproject.net/group-1-natalie-scenters-zapico daily 0.75 2018-04-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1521733879915-7S6MJDXNBELKVGVQQNAQ/Adi+Gandhi.jpg Group 2: Melissa Lozada-Oliva https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1521733907041-EBDMD0BOX8GRVKP7O2M8/Corinee+Contreras+%28Crn%29.jpg Group 2: Melissa Lozada-Oliva https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1521733923893-H1PV2DWSSAC36X4JW2PT/Danya+Wang.jpg Group 2: Melissa Lozada-Oliva 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https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1522117476174-BD1I7LS76BW9BRX5M5P0/Benjamin+Otto+Vock.jpg Group 3: Mahogany Browne https://www.thespeakeasyproject.net/group-4-luther-hughes daily 0.75 2018-04-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1522272813135-NF9GX1E6SAAD4TFKSX74/Tim+Melland.jpeg Group 4: Luther Hughes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1522272779847-UPY1SFQX0XVZIABJ1KLA/Kelsey+May+Fraser.JPG Group 4: Luther Hughes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1522272743817-W8B7D3GQJ9O69TQC03D8/Aurelia+Reynolds.JPG Group 4: Luther Hughes https://www.thespeakeasyproject.net/group-6-fatimah-ashgar-1 daily 0.75 2018-04-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1522446140401-1CU23483OOX6I7RQ0PR2/Alex+Neff.jpg Group 7: Danez Smith https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1522446209569-UF0RKV7XFD0NGPBA48Q9/Kelly+Grace+Thomas+.jpg Group 7: Danez Smith https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1522446448125-5QUX96B9SV6MA5W81PKM/Isabel+Quintero.jpg Group 7: Danez Smith https://www.thespeakeasyproject.net/group-8-cynthia-dewi-oka daily 0.75 2018-04-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1523330185979-9GZLMD56V00EATRRG3BN/Screen+Shot+2018-04-09+at+11.16.12+PM.png Group 8: Cynthia Dewi Oka https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1523232874015-GRGNRB1MLA4MFA5NR9OB/30411531_2052692864758509_2492981511758807040_o.jpg Group 8: Cynthia Dewi Oka https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1522346308176-VVWLDK1A7EFQKRGGMZT5/Donia+Salem+Harhoor.jpg Group 8: Cynthia Dewi Oka https://www.thespeakeasyproject.net/group-5 daily 0.75 2019-03-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1522347285342-P12VZ404IKGCABL1CYQR/Michael+Frazier.JPG Group 5: Julian Randall https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1522347155586-U98I3VZJ9ALMCVJ9Q4IU/Brittany+Rogers.jpg Group 5: Julian Randall https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1522347007357-RMRX3IUJB6V22KG3V8H0/Grace+Li.png Group 5: Julian Randall https://www.thespeakeasyproject.net/group-6-fatimah-ashgar daily 0.75 2018-04-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1522347567522-EO0EXMP2Z46TVN783ZBY/image-asset.jpeg Group 6: Fatimah Ashgar https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1522347540719-YQJ100OQZ72TGXI94TFV/image-asset.jpeg Group 6: Fatimah Ashgar https://www.thespeakeasyproject.net/group-9-cynthia-cruz daily 0.75 2018-04-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1522341611393-GZJ6B726V51VPISHQCWF/Noel+Quinones.jpg Group 9: Cynthia Cruz https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1522341583198-X7RCSQSNEN68BM8RQ3Q9/Nadim+Choufi.jpg Group 9: Cynthia Cruz https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1522341547425-O9PVSOUBA9CS4JXBK1BD/Jarid+Mccarthy.jpg Group 9: Cynthia Cruz https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1522341510291-YSAHLORDTIDTC7FGSW3N/Hannah+Schneider.PNG Group 9: Cynthia Cruz https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1522341475807-1FP0MSPUQTXS119D6DQ4/AK+Afferez.jpg Group 9: Cynthia Cruz https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1522341449300-5MCAZ75LZTQL9MZ1X4N0/Cynthia+Cruz+-+Mentor.jpg Group 9: Cynthia Cruz https://www.thespeakeasyproject.net/group-1-chen-chen daily 0.75 2018-08-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1533410546276-IO6CMXH8OS71FMF9XBHQ/Evelyn+N.+Alfred.jpg Group 1: Chen Chen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1533410673423-YIEQDR18FD5LX3FGAD1H/Heaven+Fay.JPG Group 1: Chen Chen https://www.thespeakeasyproject.net/group-2-paul-tran daily 0.75 2018-08-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1533411624677-YRI2HPDTJM5VVSYR2PHO/Eva+Gu.JPG Group 2: Paul Tran https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1533411631299-2QKTA3RQ9CA93YKQK7LG/Kendall+Sharita+Roberts.jpg Group 2: Paul Tran https://www.thespeakeasyproject.net/group-3-luther-hughes daily 0.75 2018-08-05 https://www.thespeakeasyproject.net/group-1-angel-nafis daily 0.75 2019-02-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978b084cd39c3c4a10c0914/1550424239635-5UX9INSMTFT479RN2MBT/Marly+Pierre-Louis.jpg Group 1: Angel Nafis 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