Dr. Stacey Dearing, Dr. Shannon Draucker, and myself will be hosting the panel “Portable Strategies for the Antiracist Classroom” at the 2021 Engage for Change conference. Come listen to strategies to promote diversity in the classroom, then discuss and brainstorm new ones. Each participant will leave with some portable concrete exercises or assignments that they can use in their next class. Hope to see you there!

Over the past semester Dr. Shannon Draucker, Dr. Stacey C. Dearing, and myself were awarded a grant from Siena College for our proposal to host a speaker and workshop series that promotes and implements inclusive and accessible pedagogical practices. In particular, the Diversity in Pedagogy series focuses on creating opportunities to consider new ways to incorporate accessibility, inclusivity, and diversity into our pedagogical practices — our assignments, our syllabus language, our projects, and our grading rubrics. Our second Zoom event is this Thursday, March 18th and we are excited to host Eric Keenaghan from SUNY Albay.

See more of Eric’s work:

• Eric Keenaghan, Total Imaginative Response: Five Undergraduate Studies from “The Lives of Muriel Rukeyser”

• Primitive Biographies by Eric Keenaghan

• Interchange – How to Be Anti-Fascist: Muriel Rukeyser and The Life of Poetry

Over the past semester Dr. Shannon Draucker, Dr. Stacey C. Dearing, and myself were awarded a grant from Siena College for our proposal to host a speaker and workshop series that promotes and implements inclusive and accessible pedagogical practices. In particular, the Diversity in Pedagogy series focuses on creating opportunities to consider new ways to incorporate accessibility, inclusivity, and diversity into our pedagogical practices — our assignments, our syllabus language, our projects, and our grading rubrics. Our second Zoom event is this Thursday, February 25th and we are excited to host Michael Leong from Cal Arts.

See more of Michael’s work

• Hyperallergic

• University of Iowa Press

• Translation

• Poetry

Over the past semester Dr. Shannon Draucker, Dr. Stacey C. Dearing, and myself were awarded a grant from Siena College for our proposal to host a speaker and workshop series that promotes and implements inclusive and accessible pedagogical practices. In particular, the Diversity in Pedagogy series focuses on creating opportunities to consider new ways to incorporate accessibility, inclusivity, and diversity into our pedagogical practices — our assignments, our syllabus language, our projects, and our grading rubrics. Our first Zoom event is this Friday and we are excited to host Travis Chi Wing Lau from Kenyon College.

See more of Travis’ work here.

I'm visiting John Reed's seminar on hybrid writing this week at the New School to talk all things aesthetically mingled and read from my multimedia collaboration with Matthew Klane, Canyons. We'll also look at work from Fence Digital and my most recent solo project. Should be fun!

Here's the reading list:

• Michael Leong's Who Unfolded My Origami Brain?
• Read Michael's artist statement on his book here.
• Read the attached excerpts from my solo hybrid project, The Posture of Countour, and my most recent hybrid collaboration with Matthew Klane, Canyons. Listen to the sound projects that accompany Posture here and Canyons here.
• Read this article on the poetics of my most recent solo collection, The Posture of Contour.

I'll be leading a workshop titled "Poetry as Walking" at 11 on Saturday Oct. 22nd at Middleburgh library. Please come on down and write poems about using the foot as a sensory organ!

"From Wordsworth to contemporary poet Lisa Robertson, we’ll tie the rhythm of the foot to the measure of our lines and come to understand that writing is an ongoing discovery of what is around and within us. Novice and experienced writers are welcome." 

Registration is required. For more information about the complete series, please click here.

This program series is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.Sponsored by the Mohawk Valley Library System and participating member libraries.Also funded in part by The Friends of the Schenectady County Public Library.Participating libraries are accessible for people with disabilities.