T218.
Building Writing Collectives that Empower and Support Outside the Institution
Thursday, February 8, 2024
3:20 pm to 4:35 pm
Artist collectives have long been places of professional knowledge sharing, resistance, and deep care, but in this era of COVID-19, inaccessibility, and increasing homophobia, collectives offer invaluable support for the writer. Whether virtual or in person, local community-originating or a national group unified by an ethnic, cultural, or Queer identity, collectives offer writers the ability to build a new society or way of relating. These five writers of color gather to share their experience.
Participants
Aliah Lavonne Tigh is the author of Weren’t We Natural Swimmers, a 2022 Tram Editions chapbook. Their poems have appeared in the Academy of American Poets' Poem-A-Day, Mizna, Guernica, The Rupture, and others. Tigh lives in Houston, Texas.
Randall James Tyrone holds an MFA from the University of Wyoming. He is a poet and community organizer in Houston, Texas.
Glenn Shaheen is the author of four books, most recently the fiction collection Carnivalia. He teaches at Prairie View A&M University and is the executive director of the Radius of Arab American Writers.
Dr. Stalina Emmanuelle Villarreal is a poet, translator, and essayist whose book Watcha is forthcoming in 2024. She has published translations of poetry by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Minerva Reynosa, Maricela Guerrero, and Sergio Pérez Torres.
