F210.
Everything is Awful: Sustaining Through Shitstorms and Systemic Obstacles
Friday, February 9, 2024
1:45 pm to 3:00 pm
How do you teach in the days after incidents of racial trauma, another mass shooting, deportation threats for your students, legislation targeting the rights of trans youth, limited abortion access, white supremacy, and so much more? This panel will offer practical strategies for sustaining yourself as a writer, a person, and a professional to avoid burnout and set clear boundaries so we can support our students, selves, and our community.
Participants
Rachel M. Simon is the author of the poetry collections Theory of Orange and Marginal Road. She works in diversity, equity, and inclusion at Pace University. She has taught at Bedford Hills Women's Prison, as the director of the Social Justice Collective at Sarah Lawrence College, and many others.
Seth Michelson teaches at Washington and Lee University. He has published twenty books of poetry and poetry in translation. He also has edited the anthologies Dreaming America: Voices of Undocumented Youth in Maximum-Security Detention and Boquete, featuring poetry by incarcerated men in Uruguay.
Juan J. Morales is the author of three poetry collections and a forthcoming book with UNM Press. He is a CantoMundo Fellow, the editor of Pilgrimage Magazine, an associate dean in the College of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences, and a professor of English at Colorado State University Pueblo.
Dr. Tara J. Plachowski has spent the last twenty years as a writer and educator across the PK–20 spectrum. Currently, she lives near St. Louis, Missouri and serves as an affiliate scholar in the UNLV Center for Multicultural Education and a research consultant for Embracing Equity.
