This photograph is from a class I taught at Indiana University called “Literary Editing and Publishing…To Change The World!”. Together we explored the world of independent publishing, used public space to create community around our art, and dove deep into creating our own anti-capitalist and anti-racist publishing principles. We also thought together about transformative justice and how we might hold ourselves and others accountable for harm in the publishing world without replicating violence.

Here’s a snippet of a poetry workshop, part of a series of writing workshops I taught to kids 7-13 years old. Here we‘re exploring metaphor and imagery by creating descriptions with a box of different sensory items, like pine needles, osage oranges, and globe amaranth (from my garden!).