Colin James Sturdevant on igniting expression through poetry

Let us know what you think by clicking here to send us a text.We catch up with Colin on building Pass the Salt Presse. He shares on how  connecting over cake at Empire Cafe lead to starting a new life time project. His Montrose Grace Place poetry project shifted from academic-style workshops to paying unhoused LGBTQ youth to write, by focusing on practical ways to keep creating when you feel stuck. • building Pass the Salt Press as a community-first literary nonprofit • learning from an early workshop model that felt too academic • paying youth poets and why small payments change everything • publishing anthologies as resume builders and proof of work • reducing barriers with freewrites, gentle edits, and “listening poet” drafting • sustaining the work through gratitude, donations, and realistic print budgets • why in-person tabling and storytelling sells more than social posts • practical advice for beating writer’s block by building from past work and seeking live art To find out more connect with him here: https://www.passthesaltpresse.org/To the listeners...THANK YOU for sharing, liking and donating as you can!Find out more about Kathi Crawford herehttps://www.instagram.com/kathicrawford/Support the showWe hope you will listen often.For more information, visit our website 22sides.com