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United Against Silence
by Community Building Art Works
In United Against Silence, Seema Reza (Poet, Essayist, CEO of Community Building Art Works) interviews some of the most incredible artists of our time. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/cbaw/support
Episodes
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Carrying Our Roots with Raychelle Heath
This conversation with Raychelle Heath is part of CBAW's #UnitedAgainstSilence interview series. Find more information and Raychelle's workshop offerings, such as her twice monthly meditation workshops, at www.theraychelleheath.com, and you can listen to her podcast, Black Women in Wellness, by...
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Where a Poem is Going with Matthew Olzmann
This conversation with Matthew Olzmann is part of the #UnitedAgainstSilence podcast series. When you shop using our Bookshop link, 10% of every purchase you make goes back to CBAW programs for military, veterans, healthcare workers, and civilians. Anything you buy from Bookshop qualifies. Just…
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The Power of Defeat with Cynthia Dewi Oka
This conversation with Cynthia Dewi Oka is part of the #UnitedAgainstSilence interview series. THU. APRIL 21 | 7PM ET | CONSIDERING OUR ANCESTORS WITH CYNTHIA DEWI OKA Cynthia Dewi Oka is the author of Fire Is Not A Country (Northwestern University Press), Salvage: Poems (Northwestern University...
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Creativity Under the Soil with Angie Ebba
This conversation with Angie Ebba is part of CBAW's #UnitedAgainstSilence interview series. Angie Ebba is a queer disabled writer, artist, educator, activist, and performer. She is a published poet and essayist, who teaches and performs across the US. She believes strongly in the power of words…
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Finding What Works for You with Ashy Palliparambil
This conversation with CBAW's Director of Programs Ashy Palliparambil is part of CBAW's #UnitedAgainstSilence interview series. Ashy Palliparambil is an Art Therapist who has worked with service members and their families for over eight years. She has facilitated various workshops, open art...
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What Lives Beyond Language with Jennifer Patterson
Jennifer Patterson is a grief worker who uses plants, breath, and words to explore survivorhood, body(ies) and healing. A queer and trans affirming and centering, trauma-experienced herbalist and breathwork facilitator, Jennifer offers sliding scale care as a practitioner through her private...
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Creating Where I Need to Create with Amber Flame
Amber Flame is an artist and performer, whose work has garnered artistic merit residencies with Hedgebrook, The Watering Hole, Wa Na Wari, Vermont Studio Center, and Yefe Nof. Flame served as the 2017-2019 poetry Writer-in-Residence at Hugo House in Seattle, and is a queer Black dandy mama who...
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First, We Gather with Hari Alluri
Hari Alluri (he/him/siya) is the author of The Flayed City (Kaya). A winner of the 2020 Leonard A. Slade, Jr. Poetry Fellowship and an editor at Locked Horn Press, he has received grants from the BC Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts and fellowships from Las Dos Brujas, Port…
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The Abundance of Forgiveness with Dilruba Ahmed
Dilruba Ahmed is the author Bring Now the Angels (Pitt Poetry Series, 2020), with poems featured in New York Times Magazine, Best American Poetry 2019, and podcasts such as The Slowdown with Tracy K. Smith and Poetry Unbound with Pádraig Ó Tuama. Her debut book of poetry, Dhaka Dust (Graywolf...
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What Community Should Be with Courtney LeBlanc
Courtney LeBlanc is the author of the full length collections Exquisite Bloody, Beating Heart (Riot in Your Throat) and Beautiful & Full of Monsters (Vegetarian Alcoholic Press). She is also the founder and editor-in-chief of Riot in Your Throat, an independent poetry press. She loves nail…
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The Work Wants to be Understood with Jon Sands
Jon Sands is a winner of the 2018 National Poetry Series, selected for his second book, It’s Not Magic (Beacon Press, 2019). He hosts an interview series on IG Live called Ps & Qs. You can follow him at @iAmJonSands. His work has been featured in the New York Times, as well as anthologized in The...
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Re-Teaching Yourself with CBAW's Own Laura Van Prooyen
Laura Van Prooyen is author of three collections of poetry: Frances of the Wider Field (Lily Poetry Review Books) Our House Was on Fire (Ashland Poetry Press) nominated by Philip Levine and winner of the McGovern Prize and Inkblot and Altar (Pecan Grove Press). She is also co-author with Gretchen...
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What Joy Has Kept Us Here with Brionne Janae
Brionne Janae is a poet and teaching artist living in Brooklyn. They are the author of Blessed are the Peacemakers (2021) which won the 2020 Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize, and After Jubilee (2017) published by Boat Press. Brionne has received fellowships to Cave Canem,...
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Writing for Medicine and Art with Jewel
Singer-songwriter, Poet, Actress, 2x New York Times Best Selling Author + Mental Health Expert Jewel went from a girl who grew up with no running water on an Alaskan homestead, to a homeless teenager in San Diego, to an award winning, Multi-Platinum Recording Artist who released one of the...
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Writing To Be Understood with Brandon Wint
Brandon Wint is an Ontario born poet and spoken word artist who uses poetry to attend to the joy and devastation and inequity associated with this era of human and ecological history. Increasingly, his work on the page and in performance casts a tender but robust attention toward the movements…
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Being a Pair of Eyes with Aracelis Girmay
Aracelis Girmay is the author of the poetry collections Teeth, Kingdom Animalia, and the black maria. She is also the author/collagist of the picture book changing, changing, and with her sister collaborated on the recently published What Do You Know? Girmay is on the editorial board of the…
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Between Generations with Dare Williams
A 2019 PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow, Dare Williams is a Queer HIV-positive poet, artist, rooted in Southern California. He has received fellowships from John Ashbury Home School and The Frost Place. He is a co-producer of the reading series Word of Mouth which raises money for communities...
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Recess Projects with Sonya Huber
Sonya Huber is the author of six books, including the award-winning essay collection on chronic pain, Pain Woman Takes Your Keys and Other Essays from a Nervous System and the forthcoming Supremely Tiny Acts: A Memoir in a Day. Her other books include Opa Nobody, Cover Me: A Health Insurance...
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What Does My Life Want from Me? with Ekaterina Sky
Ekaterina started her art journey at The School of Fine Arts in Yaroslavl, Russia, where she completed a rigorous fine arts program. With a solid knowledge of skills and techniques she received a scholarship at The Art School of Museum of Tel-Aviv. There she experimented with different shapes and...
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Love as an Activity of Daily Living with Seema Reza
Former guest Nisha Gupta returns to interview Seema Reza about her creative process and relationship to silence. Seema Reza is a writer and performer and the author of the memoir When the World Breaks Open (Red Hen Press) and the poetry collection A Constellation of Half-Lives, (Write Bloody...
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It's Not the Same Sh*t When You're Done with Melissa Febos
Melissa Febos is the author of the memoir Whip Smart and two essay collections: Abandon Me and Girlhood. The inaugural winner of the Jeanne Córdova Nonfiction Award from LAMBDA Literary and the recipient of fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, Bread Loaf, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, The…
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The Reward of Community with Purvi Shah
Purvi Shah’s favorite art practices are her sparkly eyeshadow, raucous laughter, and seeking justice. She won the inaugural SONY South Asian Social Service Excellence Award for her leadership fighting violence against women. Her new book, Miracle Marks, explores women, the sacred, and gender &...
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An Animal Among Animals and Plants with Christina Olivares
Christina Olivares is the author of the books of poetry No Map of the Earth Includes Stars, winner of the 2014 Marsh Hawk Press Book Prize, and Ungovernable, forthcoming from YesYes Books in 2021. Olivares is a queer American-Cuban from the Bronx. She believes in the abolition of poverty and of…
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We Can All Respond to Stories with Bryan Doerries
Bryan Doerries is a writer, director, and translator, who currently serves as Artistic Director of Theater of War Productions. A self-described evangelist for ancient stories and their relevance to our lives today, Doerries uses age-old approaches to help individuals and communities heal from...
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Soak It All Up And Learn with Hannah Grieco
Hannah Grieco is a writer, editor, and teacher in Arlington, VA. Her work can be found in a variety of publications, from The Washington Post to The Rumpus to Huffington Post, and more. She is the cnf editor at JMWW, the fiction editor at Porcupine Literary, and the founder and organizer of the...
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Learning to Adapt with Jive Poetic
Jive Poetic is a writer, organizer, and educator based in Brooklyn, New York. He is the founder of Insurgent Poets Society, Carnival Slam: Cultural Exchange, and the co-founder of the Brooklyn Poetry Slam. When he is not on tour or hosting, he teaches performance poetry and hip – hop workshops to...
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Learning from the Uncomfortable Places with Susanna Sonnenberg
Susanna Sonnenberg is the author of two memoirs, Her Last Death and She Matters: A Life in Friendships, both New York Times bestsellers. She has published widely in magazines and anthologies and, since 2013 has been teaching writing with a focus on memoir. She lives in Missoula, Montana. Find out...
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Honoring the Irrational with Nisha Gupta
Dr. Nisha Gupta is an assistant professor of psychology at the University of West Georgia. She has nine years of training as a psychotherapist, with a focus on empowerment in the face of personal and societal traumas. She is also an arts-based phenomenological researcher, which is a method of...
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Letting Yourself Stay with Ben Weakley
Ben Weakley spent fourteen years in the U.S. Army, beginning with deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan and finishing at a desk inside the Pentagon. He writes poetry and essays about the enduring nature of war and the human experience. His work appears in the anthology, "Our Best War Stories"...
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In United Against Silence, Seema Reza (Poet, Essayist, CEO of Community Building Art Works) interviews some of the most incredible artists of our time. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/cbaw/support
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