Simply put, therapeutic poetry is a personal, communal, and creative celebration of our human vulnerability. More specifically, therapeutic poetry is born out of the act of reflection and involves inscribing traumatic events or hardships on […]

Simply put, therapeutic poetry is a personal, communal, and creative celebration of our human vulnerability. More specifically, therapeutic poetry is born out of the act of reflection and involves inscribing traumatic events or hardships on […]
We’ve all been consuming a considerable amount of media that references the tension between black men and white women—from white women’s co-opting of the Black Lives Matter movement, presumably in an attempt to appear woke, […]
always, something deserves to be burned…~ from “Not an Elegy for Mike Brown” by Danez Smith I may not have understood the significance of phrases like white hate and generational racism when I was a […]
When Trump was elected, I worried how spending four years of their childhood living in a distorted, damaged reality would change my children. Then I remembered what my five-year-old daughter said just the day before: […]
I would describe the bombers as “fraternity boys,” and I’m not saying this to perpetuate unsubstantiated stereotypes. I’ve been in higher education for just over 20 years, and I’ve seen some deplorable behaviors from fraternities […]
I was honorably discharged from the United Air Force in the summer of 2005 and suddenly found myself unemployed. A few weeks later, I was homeless. Dominant economic theory suggests that the economy becomes unstable […]
If you’re an educator, you might be celebrating Black History Month by assigning Frederick Douglass or Sojourner Truth, maybe Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes. If you’re not confined by district restrictions and reading lists, […]
I keep thinking about Adrienne Rich and Audre Lorde—what it means to revise history, why it’s important to understand the difference between poetry and rhetoric. Along with the poetry of Rich (and Sexton and Plath, […]
The Washington Post reports that a total of 992 people were shot and killed by police in 2018. Similarly, there were 986 fatal police shootings in 2017, 962 in 2016, and 994 in 2015. A […]
Over 150 years ago, The Revolution’s Elizabeth Cady Stanton told women: “I challenge you to dare and do anything.” I don’t know that she ever considered “becoming historians” part of her challenge, but she might […]