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 clicking this link: anchor.fm/bwiwinterviews  Raychelle Heath is a poet, artist, teacher, yoga and meditation instructor, podcaster, and digital nomad. She holds a BA in languages from Winthrop University and an MFA in poetry from the University of South Carolina. While she primarily writes poetry, she considers herself a storyteller. She uses her poetry and her podcast to tell the multifaceted stories of black women in the world. She also explores her experiences with the culturally rich communities that she has encountered in her travels. Her work has been published by Travel Noire, Fourth Wave, Yellow Arrow Journal, The Brazen Collective, and Community Building Art Works. She currently works as curriculum director, sanctuary coach, and facilitator for the Unicorn Authors Club. She also regularly facilitates workshops for BIPOC Writing Party and The World We Want workshops. For more information about CBAW workshops visit www.cbaw.org --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cbaw/support

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 look for the CBAW Bookstore banner at the top of the page when you are shopping. https://bookshop.org/lists/poetry-and-the-art-of-surprise-with-matthew-olzmann  Matthew Olzmann is the author of Constellation Route as well as two previous collections of poetry: Mezzanines and Contradictions in the Design. A recipient of fellowships from Kundiman, MacDowell, and the National Endowment for the Arts, Olzmann’s poems have appeared in the New York Times, Best American Poetry, the Pushcart Prizes, Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. He is a Senior Lecturer of Creative Writing at Dartmouth College and also teaches in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cbaw/support

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 Press) and Nomad of Salt and Hard Water (Thread Makes Blanket). She’s currently Poet in Residence at the Amy Clampitt House.Find Cynthia's books on the CBAW Bookshop page: https://bookshop.org/lists/cbaw-spotlight-cynthia-dewi-oka For more information about CBAW's programs visit www.cbaw.org. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cbaw/support

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 and art to help better understand ourselves, build connections and community, and make personal and social change. You can find Angie's free online writing community here: https://rebel-on-page.mn.co/share/BWyg3dRIrV7oV-Qa?utm_source=manual  and find Angie on the web and get signed up for her newsletter at rebelonpage.com.  For more information about CBAW programs visit www.cbaw.org. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cbaw/support

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 sessions, and has always encouraged recovering service members to "find what works" for them. Whether it be the visual arts, music, or writing, she is always supportive in helping service members find the healing power of art. For more information about programs visit www.cbaw.org --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cbaw/support

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 practice Corpus Ritual and is a member of The Breathe Network and Breathwork for Recovery. She facilitates writing and breathwork workshops at healing centers,  LGBTQ centers, a needle exchange and harm reduction clinic, online with  the Transformative Language Arts Network, sexual violence resource centers, at colleges and universities, and in the past, veterans hospitals, the collective What Would an HIV Doula Do? and a Hasidic and Orthodox Jewish healing center. She is the  author of The Power of Breathwork: Simple Practices to Promote Wellbeing (Quarto). Editor of the anthology Queering Sexual Violence: Radical Voices from Within the Anti- Violence Movement (2016), Jennifer speaks across the country, and has had writing published in places like VIDA: Women in Literary Arts, 580 Split, OCHO: A Journal of Queer Arts, Nat. Brut, The Establishment, HandJob, and The Feminist Wire. She was also the creative nonfiction editor of Hematooiesis Press. A  graduate of Goddard College’s MA program, Jennifer is finishing a book  project focused on translating embodied traumatic experience through  somatic practices and critical and creative nonfiction. You can find more at corpusritual.com. Find out more about CBAW's programs at www.cbaw.org --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cbaw/support

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 falls hard for a jumpsuit and some fresh kicks. For more information on CBAW's programs visit www.cbaw.org --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cbaw/support

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 Townsend, and VONA/Voices writers workshops. His work appears in the Watch Your Head (Coach House) and Pandemic Solidarity (Pluto) anthologies, as well as recently in Prism International, Solstice, Tinderbox, The Volta and elsewhere. For more information on workshops visit www.cbaw.org --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cbaw/support

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 Press, 2011), won the Bakeless Prize.  Ahmed’s poems have appeared in Kenyon Review, New England Review, and Ploughshares.  Her poetry has also been anthologized in Literature: The Human Experience; Border Lines: Poems of Migration; The Orison Anthology 2020; and elsewhere.  Ahmed is the recipient of The Florida Review’s Editors’ Award, a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Prize, and the Katharine Bakeless Nason Fellowship in Poetry awarded by the Bread Loaf Writers Conference.  Ahmed has taught with the MFA programs at Chatham University and Warren Wilson College.  She also teaches classes online with Hugo House and The Writing Lab. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cbaw/support

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 polish, tattoos, and a soy latte each morning. Read her publications on her blog: www.wordperv.com. Follow her on twitter: @wordperv, and IG: @wordperv79. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cbaw/support