212-674-0910 Recent prose and hybrid writing can be found in MAYDAY Magazine, miCRo, Bat City Review, Talking Writing, New Delta Review, Pacifica Lit Review, and elsewhere. I am inhabiting one of her pockets, Es un hueco vaco El xiuxiueig em fa companyia. Her interests shifted from science and engineering to creative writing. She has a Ph.D. in Caribbean Literature. It can move from wet and lush to syllabically strict almost instantaneously. Their work has appeared in conversation with movement and poetry by artist and creative collaborator Molly McLaughlin of ATTN: Dance, most recently in the presentation Make it Up. Will has also collaborated as scenographer with dancemaker Heather Stewart on her piece against hard air. They live in New York City. When they all unite the sounds go Poetry writers. They are a 2021 Gregory Djanikian Scholar selected by The Adroit Journal & the author of Autopsy (Button Poetry, 2017), a finalist for a Minnesota Book Award. All proceeds support The Poetry Project's programs! may or may not be sexual but whos to say, counterintuitive but i would love to fit a safari in mine A recipient of the Fischer Prize and a Professional Artist Fellowship from the Arts Council for Long Beach, her poems have appeared or are forthcoming inThe Shore,GASHER,Mid-American Review,Radar Poetry,Gulf Stream,Frontier Poetry, and elsewhere. In the use of the line and the timing of phrases there is also a novelty at work, an element of surprise. Articles by Eloise King-Clements on Muck Rack. so harden ur heart (i am), i insist on calling it airbb Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in theAlaska Quarterly Review,Barrow Street, theCincinnati Review,Conduit,Gulf Coast,Pangyrus, and elsewhere. 131 E. 10th Street, New York, NY 10003 My sister doesnt call it a bird, she calls it a day. On Facebook, If you are interested in advertising in The Poetry Project . The Poetry Project St. Mark's Church 131 E. 10th Street, New York, NY 10003 Arianne Ayu Alizio (b. If you are interested in purchasing a table rather than an individual ticket, please reach out to Roberto at gala@poetryproject.org. XXXXXXXXXXXxXThe cicadas in one location echo in the opposite In addition to the financial prize, the winning poet will have one poem published in The Poetry Project Newsletter. xiu xiu hum xiu xiu hum xiu xiu hum xiu xiu hum Her work explored the role and experience of marginalized women, sexual dynamics, drug addiction, and other difficult topics. Whether you're a local, new in town, or just passing through, you'll be sure to find something on Eventbrite that piques your interest. The Poetry Project is proud to offer a new annual $1,000 prizefor emerging poets in honor of former Poetry Project intern and poetLisaBrannan,called TheBrannanPrize. Nathaniel Rosenthalis is a poet and critic, whose work has appeared inLana Turner,Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, Conjunctions,The Chicago Review,and elsewhere. Arizona State University All Rights Reserved. Jones selected Emma Gomis as this years prize recipient, and had the following to share about Emmass work: The poem 'Xiu Xiu' is language liscious. then sun. The judge for The Brannan Prize will review all submissions without any identifying information. a nice town, farm animals as glorious pets, the only thing ill butcher is pronunciation And there I kept thinking of a diagram Dianne Di Prima drew of time as a straight line with pockets that you could slip in to. Lisa passed away on June 4, 1997, at the age of 22 in Atlanta, Georgia. YouTube. If you have written a review that you'd like to publish in the PPNL, please see the submission guidelines. The Poetry Project is proud to announce the second winner of The Brannan Prize, our new annual $1,000 prize for emerging poets in honor of former Poetry Project intern and poet Lisa Brannan. Lisa Brannan was a Poetry Project intern in New York City during the mid-1990s. XXXXXXXXXXXxX i spray ur cologne on my knuckles : smell u on my fingers : white ppl would sooner notice bush & thistle than see us : thats how i lived in the american for 7 days, Darlin, in your wildest dreams, you never had a clueQuarterflash, a frock, gold thread, white trim like a stab of light There is a place where the lines intersect Information may have changed. 131 E. 10th Street, New York, NY 10003 The Poetry Project is proud to offer The Brannan Prize, an annual $1,000 prize for emerging poets in honor of former Poetry Project intern and poet Lisa Brannan. Job Description: I need people to send in poems for my planned mobile app. XXXXXXXXXXXxX Entre las cuadriculas de mi papel. They were awarded the Poetry Project's prestigious Brannan Prize in 2021, & serve as a poetry editor at the acclaimed journal Fence. A novel in stories. The Poetry Projects programs are supported, in part, by public funds by The National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. even lawyers click thru service agreements w/o reading, what would u fit in a snowglobe Her work explored the role and experience of marginalized women, sexual dynamics, drug addiction, and other difficult topics. "If one is the possessor of health and strength, a good news instinct a fair photographic outfit, and the ability to hustle, which is the most necessary qualification, one can be a news photographer." Tapped to edit Lambda Literary's Emerge anthology, their poems have been nominated for Best New Poets, Best of the Net, & the Pushcart Prize. Twitter, Sigo selected Michael Chang as this years prize recipient, and had the following to share about Michaels work: I chose these poems for their film like flow and beautifully encrypted collisions. XXXXXXDreta a la cuina vigilant mentre el menjar fa xup xup. Mubico i moriento en desxifrar els xiulets que entren per la finestra. Her awards include the E. E. Cummings Prize from the NEPC, the Goldstein Prize fromMichigan Quarterly Review, and the Writers Block Prize in Poetry. Enjoy a Polka lesson at 7pm followed by open dancing and performances at 8pm. Instagram, Las formas en distorsin expandida SHENANIGANS AT HERB'S, 515 Rogue River Highway, Grants Pass, 541-476-1668. In addition to the financial prize, the winning poet will have one poem published in The Poetry Project Newsletter. The Poetry Project is proud to offer a new annual $1,000 prize for emerging poets in honor of former Poetry Project intern and poet Lisa Brannan, called The Brannan Prize. Michael Chang (they/them) is the author of several collections of poetry, including Boyfriend Perspective (Really Serious Literature, 2021), Almanac of Useless Talents (CLASH Books, 2022), & Synthetic Jungle (Northwestern University Press, 2023). El nostre ritme abarca el que s cotidia: el ritual, la paraula, la rutina, la repetici. -Served as a Student Representative for the Theater Department Search Committee in their search for a Visiting Professor in Directing. Directions and accessibility Cama rectangular Los bordes de nuestros espacios She was born in 1975, grew up in South Carolina, and moved to New York to study engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology. She is the 1st place winner of the 2020 Poetry Super Highway, the 2020 Frontier Poetry Award for New Poets Contests, and the 2021 Adrienne Rich Poetry Prize. The Version table provides details related to the release that this issue/RFE will be addressed. Repetido. You may need to look up some of the baseball terms, we do a pretty thorough deep dive into the sport vis-a-vis Krystal's poems. 1991, Trenton NJ) is a filmmaker and poet devoted to storytelling as placemaking as healing practice. The Poetry Projects programs are supported, in part, by public funds by The National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. 131 E. 10th Street, New York, NY 10003 He was chosen by Kaveh Akbar to receive the 2021 Patricia Cleary Miller Award for Poetry fromNew Lettersand is nominated for a 2021 Pushcart Prize byThe Worcester Review. She lives in Jackson Heights, Queens, is a homeschooling mom, and is currently a Masters of Divinity candidate at New York Theological Seminary. info@poetryproject.org. 2022 Fourth Annual Brannan Prize The Poetry Project is very pleased to share that Arianne Ayu Alizio has been selected as the winner of the Fourth Annual Brannan Prize! YouTube. Join us for an evening of performances and remarks honoring the life and work of Patricia Spears Jones and Rene Ricard. There is no fee for poets interested in submitting to the prize. Poets interested in having their work considered should observe the guidelines below: We are not currently accepting submissions for The Brannan Prize at this time, please check back in 2020. I feel like smiling somedays Their work is forthcoming or has recently been published inGulf Coast, Redivider, Ninth Letter, Puerto del Sol, THE BOILER, Poetry Northwest,and elsewhere. Check out the call and submit. Submitted by pcmasuedu on Fri, 01/14/2022 - 14:44, Brandel France de Bravo is the author ofProvenance(Washington Writers Publishing House poetry prize winner),Mother, Loose(Accents Publishing, Judges Choice Award) and the editor of an anthology of contemporary Mexican poetry. The rectangles split and a grid lays over my speech. YouTube. While a student, Lisa began to develop an interest in the local literary and cultural scene of Lower Manhattan. H St., Grants Pass, 541-474-4991. Hannah Smith is a writer from Dallas, Texas. POETRY: Cindy Tran FIVE PIECES: Lydia Okrent BRANNAN PRIZE: Will Farris GRATEFUL FOR GRAVITY by Patricia Spears Jones NOTES ON POWER, ACCESS AND VISIBILITY by Zefyr Lisowski Reviews: Levi Bentley on Bill Berkson on Frank O'Hara; Katie Ebbitt on Rachel Rabbit White; Lonely Christopher on Don Yorty; Morgan Vo on Anna Gurton-Wachter Article Writing & Article Rewriting Projects for $10 - $30. Dorothy Chan (she/they) is the author ofBABE(Diode Editions 2021),Revenge of the Asian Woman(Diode Editions, 2019),Attack of the Fifty-Foot Centerfold(Spork Press, 2018), and the chapbookChinatown Sonnets(New Delta Review, 2017). info@poetryproject.org. but for the life of me i cant remember what they said, confucius was confused Her work incorporates video, theory and work with various archives. The judge for the first annualBrannanPrize was the poet Lisa Jarnot,who served as Newsletter editor during the period of LisaBrannans internship. Joshua has been a Fellow at MacDowell and the Tent Writing Conference at the Yiddish Book Center. This is default text for notification bar, Employment, Internships, and Volunteering, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Jerome Foundation, celebrating the creative spirit of emerging artists. info@poetryproject.org. Directions and accessibility She is currently an MFA candidate in poetry at the Ohio State University, where she is the Associate Managing Editor ofThe Journal. The Poetry Project is proud to announce the second winner of The Brannan Prize, our new annual $1,000 prize for emerging poets in honor of former Poetry Project intern and poet Lisa Brannan. In the grids used in modernist visual art, the grid overlaid onto the canvas, becomes a doubling of the surface, imposes a geometric order which, as Krauss points out, doesnt reveal the surface but rather renders it opaque. Cedar also uplifted the notable works of Alisha Dietzman and Kamelya Omayma Youssef. Find Eloise King-Clements's email address, contact information, LinkedIn, Twitter, other social media and more. While a student, Lisa began to develop an interest in the local literary and cultural scene of Lower Manhattan. Currently Joshua lives in Houston with his wife, Lauren, and son, Owen. The Poetry Project is proud to offer a new annual $1,000 prize for emerging poets in honor of former Poetry Project intern and poet Lisa Brannan, called The Brannan Prize. She joined The Poetry Project as an intern in 1995 and helped the Project with event promotion and archiving. The Poetry Project is honored to host our 55th Anniversary Gala in the Sanctuary of St. Mark's Church on Friday, April 8. xxxx Emma Gomis is a Catalan American essayist, poet, editor and translator. Will Farrisis a writer and visual artist concerned with language and poetics across and between artistic disciplines. Cover: apotropaic by Christine Shan Shan Hou, St. Marks Church His most recent book is Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018 (2021). She holds an MFA from McNeese State and is a PhD candidate at Florida State. Quedan suspendidos, Around mid-day I wanted to stop writing, but I had already put myself in the kitchen, my laptop glowing on the counter, repurposing the space. who r all these ppl, Only thing Im not / is sorryDemi Lovato, i like european boys b/c then i know exactly why i dont understand them, i dont know abt exit wounds or the night sky, i get into situations w/o figuring how to get out, funny how ppl say until their heart stops they will do this or that, seems like too much responsibility for a heart, isnt it typical for a poet to ruminate over the hearts importance, as if it were some mechanical device working in fits & starts, i guess its really game over when the widget stops, yea that explains these sticky fingers & why ur mad at me, i smell u on my pillow even tho uve never been here, tell me this: who is riding michael knight, MICHAEL CHANG (they/them) is the author of several collections of poetry, including Boyfriend Perspective, Almanac of Useless Talents. SoundCloud and The Poetry Project's 55th Anniversary Gala - April 8, 2022 Launch for Beautiful Aliens: A Steve Abbott Reader February 24, 2020 Elaine Kahn with Coco Gordon Moore & Bridget Talone February 21, 2020 PERMISSIVE DISTANCE: ON THE EPISTOLARY POEM with Kay Gabriel February 20, 2020 46th Annual New Year's Day Marathon Benefit Reading January 1, 2020 There she told me about the marvel that becomes revealed, then concealed, at the span of a ripple. The Prize is sponsored by Brunel University London. Visually, they are surprising, innovative and evocative; their shapes are brilliant containers that emit the energies and drives and desires that the poems communicate. As a structure, a grid is inherently multiple, it repeats itself, the same figure compulsively recurs. Her texts. In addition to the financial prize, the winning poet will have one poem published in The Poetry Project Newsletter. They make dreams tangible, Daniel Borzutzky is a poet and translator who lives in Chicago. This conversation took place in the summer of 2022, just after the publication of Krystal Languell's book Systems Thinking With Flowers, which was chosen by Rae Armantrout to be published by Fonograf Editions as part of their Open Genre Book Prize. 131 E. 10th Street, New York, NY 10003 Recent poems are featured or forthcoming inCrab Creek Review,Denver Quarterly,The Ilanot Review, andYalobusha Review, and his debut poetry collection,Mind Lit in Neon, is newly available from Finishing Line Press. Brunel International African Poetry Prize This is aimed at the development, celebration and promotion of poetry from Africa. XXXXXXshe says, XXXXXXXXXXXxXMira com xiuxiueja a la finestra. The grid is not a totalizing system, but rather a poetics of the iterative, a queering of linear narrative. Los detalles se multiplican. I codify the rain, the passing car, the squeaking door Twitter, The Poetry Project is accepting submissions for the Brannan Prize for emerging poets! 1846 (MDCCCXLVI) was a common year beginning on a Thursday according to the Gregorian calendar.. Events Editar | Comentar January. Collins received the Mitchell Prize in Poetry from Augsburg University and is an alum of TruArtSpeaks, an arts & culture organization cultivating literacy, leadership, and social justice through the study & application of Spoken Word and Hip Hop culture. wanting more." Sandra Brannan, author of the award-winning Liv Bergen Mystery Series "A brilliant, multi-leveled concept, Faulknerian in its structure. Carolyn lives with her family in Massachusetts, where she is the editor ofThe Worcester Review. Xiu xiu hum xup xup hum cric cric hum etc, XXXXXXXXXXXxX This years prize judge was Lisa Jarnot, who served as The Poetry Project Newsletter Editor during Lisa Brannans internship at The Poetry Project. In 2018, Will Farris was the inaugural recipient of The Brannan Prize at The Poetry Project. Jarnot reviewed the over 160 submissions with no identifying information, and selected Will Farris as the winner for the first annual Brannan Prize. XXXXXXIt forms and unforms in pliant dimensions The Poetry Project is proud to announce the third winner of The Brannan Prize, our new annual $1,000 prize for emerging poets in honor of former Poetry Project intern and poet Lisa Brannan. The name of the club was chosen in honour of the Hindoo sage of medicine. You're invited to "Bullying, the Birthplace of Abuse: Prevention and the Power of Poetry." Award-winning filmmaker, speaker, author, poet, and creator of "Cultural Cardio aerobic series," Cher Obediah will be reading from her book, "Shame to Shine" and speaking about her own experience with domestic violence and the healing power of writing. Budget $10-30 USD. the soft hum quickens and falls into sync Poetry writers. Lisa developed her writing by immersing herself in the world of the subjects and themes that interested her. Her work can be found or is forthcoming inA Harp in the Stars: An Anthology of Lyric Essays(University of Nebraska Press), Nimrod International Journal, Tupelo Quarterly, The Cincinnati Review, Willow Springs, DIAGRAM, Booth, Smokelong Quarterly, Hobart, and The Normal School, among others. The Poetry Project Donation Donation Information This form is for making donations. safaris r not okay irl but permissible in the context of a snowglobe, i think i like cheetahs We will see you there Fri 7 - 10 PM Mardi Gras Carnival and Masquerade Ball Holiday Dance Studio, 5200 Eubank Blvd. Poets interested in having their work considered should observe the guidelines below: We are not currently accepting submissions for The Brannan Prize. Here is my new showreel . SoundCloud and Terrifically exciting. The Poetry Project is proud to offer a new annual $1,000 prize for emerging poets in honor of former Poetry Project intern and poet Lisa Brannan, called The Brannan Prize. Today in Rumpus Poetry, Stephen Scott Whitaker reviews DRAKKAR NOIR by Michael Chang, out now from Bateau Press. Chan is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Editor Emeritus ofHobart, Book Reviews Co-Editor ofPleiades, and Co-Founder and Editor in Chief ofHoney LiteraryInc., a 501(c)(3) literary arts organization. The Poetry Project published this limited edition (50) of portfolio of prints to celebrate its 50th Anniversary in September 2016. The generosity and dedication of our interns and volunteers often emerging poets themselves is invaluable to The Poetry Project, and we are so honored to offer this prize, which supports emerging poets, in the memory of our former intern, Lisa Brannan. I feel like smiling somedays XXXXXXIn its swerve we all move into each other The firearms held by these people - common sporting shotguns and rifles - are also the guns most often used in family violence, homicide, suicide, injury and crime. I wake up to find my pillow cradled there, in the nook of a right angle, La incertidumbre se hace perpetua The Poetry Project is very pleased to share that Arianne Ayu Alizio has been selected as the winner of the Fourth Annual Brannan Prize! floor length Bolshevik with high-beaded collar. Lisa passed away on June 4, 1997, at the age of 22 in Atlanta, Georgia. Subscribe for updates about Project news and events, Powered by WordPress | Site by Bad Feather. my little Galanos nesting doll . give me your sharpest penance and notxxxxx lollipop reinforcements.) !*&#@!! In New Zealand, 97% of licensed firearm owners are allowed to keep an unlimited number of guns in secret. Cover: apotropaic by Christine Shan Shan Hou, St. Marks Church The design for the title page and bookplate was made by George W. Maynard. Quiero hablarte desde mi papel cuadriculado. He is also a singer and performer who recently made his Off-Broadway debut. Her work explored the role and experience of marginalized women, sexual dynamics, drug addiction, and other difficult topics. In the pocket time moves at strange speeds. To receive upcoming issues in the mail, sign-up for an annual subscription here. Freelancer. Her interests shifted from science and engineering to creative writing. An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. In both terms, bird and day, space swells then collapses upon itself A monthly prize will be awarded for the . She graduated from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, and studied writing at the People's Poets and Writers Workshop in Worcester. Brett Hanley is a Poetry Editor forSoutheast Review. As she was telling me about it the angel that came in her fever reappeared, then appeared to disappear, and it was made of corn, a little doll from the corn fields where she left a coin in the birds beak. Lisa Brannan was a Poetry Project intern in New York City during the mid-1990s. The criteria for submission is that the poet may not have published a full-length book at the time the prize is given, although chapbook publication is fine. I love the focus on family, on sound, on the transformation of the daily a reminder that poetry marks moments as well as aeons. Lisa developed her writing by immersing herself in the world of the subjects and themes that interested her. Bcher, Fortsetzungen, Abonnements online bestellen, portofreie Lieferung innerhalb Deutschlands.Schweitzer-online.de Ihr Online Shop fr Fachinformationen. XXXXXXshow us the bird loitering on her balcony Twitter, Pantallas rectangulares, I move from one to the next, sweeping around the borders The birds, Xiu xiu xiu xiu xiu xiu syncopating a cric cric cric cric cric cric, XXXXXXXXXXXxX I wanted to talk about endings, R.J. Lambert (he, him, his) is a queer writer, runner, and cat dad in Charleston, SC. Judge Daniel Borzutzky selected Arianne's work out of a staggering 550 submissions, stating: These Brannan Prize winning poems are awesome! info@poetryproject.org. The grid offers order, constraint, reiteration, which in turn allows room for freedom and variation. Bernardine Evaristo, writer and Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel, initiated the award in 2012 to revitalise African poetry. Drawings, Prizes and much more! R.J. teaches writing at the Medical University of South Carolinaand can be found at@SoyRJ. Information may have changed. She joined The Poetry Project as an intern in 1995 and helped the Project with event promotion and archiving. Sometimes I write for hours, sometimes for minutes, both increments feel equal, approximate. She measures time by the sounds of her food cooking. There is no fee for poets interested in submitting to the prize. In addition to the financialprize, the winning poet will have one poem published in The Poetry Project Newsletter. He is the author of two full-length collections, his debutI Won't Begin Again(Winner of the 2021 Burnside Review Press Book Award, 2023) andThe Leniad(Broken Sleep Books, 2023). . We were honored to welcome Cedar Sigo as this year's prize judge. This years prize judge was Lisa Jarnot, who served as The Poetry Project Newsletter Editor during Lisa Brannans internship at The Poetry Project. Lisa Jarnotis the author of several books, includingBlack Dog Songs(2003),Night Scenes(2008),Joie De Vivre: Selected Poems 1992-2012, and a biography of San Francisco poet Robert Duncan,The Ambassador from Venus, published by the University of California Press in 2012. syllables are muddled and language folds over Thursdays, open mic, music, poetry, comedy hosted by Coleman Antonucci, 6-8 p.m., no cover. Se confunden, se borran, The stories I tell you, like squares of a grid, are irreconcilable, they cant come together to form an individual telling. In the grid, there is no original square that is then repeated, rather all squares are repetitions of each other. Taylor Byas is a Black Chicago native currently living in Cincinnati, Ohio. The generosity and dedication of our interns and volunteers often emerging poets themselves is invaluable to The Poetry Project, and we are so honored to offer thisprize, which supports emerging poets, in the memory of our former intern, LisaBrannan. She is the author of the chapbookBloodwarmfrom Variant Lit,Shutter,forthcoming fromMadhouse Press,and her debut full-length,I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times,forthcoming fromSoft Skull Pressin Spring of 2023. This is an older, archived version of The Poetry Project site. I see in this work the writers ability to distill language and to disrupt syntactical expectations without entirely obscuring narrative elements. Joshua Gottlieb-Miller holds an MFA and PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Houston, where he has served as Gulf Coast's Digital Nonfiction Editor and Print Poetry Editor. She lives in California. SoundCloud and She is the author of the chapbook. POETRY: Cindy Tran FIVE PIECES: Lydia Okrent BRANNAN PRIZE: Will Farris GRATEFUL FOR GRAVITY by Patricia Spears Jones NOTES ON POWER, ACCESS AND VISIBILITY by Zefyr Lisowski Reviews: Levi Bentley on Bill Berkson on Frank O'Hara; Katie Ebbitt on Rachel Rabbit White; Lonely Christopher on Don Yorty; Morgan Vo on Anna Gurton-Wachter Instagram, too perfect a memorytoo much of a good thing, u remember all the slights & hiccups & blemishes Quiero vivir en esta opacidad onrica Her poems appear inThe Massachusetts Review, Indiana Review, Shenandoah, Beloit Poetry Journal, 32 Poems, Southern Indiana Review, Copper Nickel, and elsewhere. 212-674-0910 She was born in 1975, grew upin South Carolina, and moved to New York to study engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology. The criteria for submission is that the poet may not have published a full-length book at the time the, Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but please let us know if your work is accepted elsewhere before the June. Directions and accessibility I start to witness the sound of the same bird. St. Marks Church 212-674-0910 the body needs rest & jesus, the only thing ive lost is my mind I see in this work the writers ability to distill language and to disrupt syntactical expectations without entirely obscuring narrative elements. She is the author of the poetry collections Home Country (1992), Dirt Road Home: Poems (1995) nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, and Mother/Land (2006). She has received support from The Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, andAmerican Poetry Journalrecently published their debut chapbook,Defeat the Rest. These are challenging, fun, powerful poems and Im excited to see whats next for our author whose vision and spirit will surely delight and inspire readers. Donte Collins is a surrealist blues poet named the inaugural Youth Poet Laureate of Saint Paul, Minnesota, the recipient of a McKnight Artist Fellowship for Spoken Word, and winner of the Most Promising Young Poet Award from the Academy of American Poets. A public health professional, she currently teaches a meditation program developed at Stanford University called Compassion Cultivation Training.. What the reader is left with is a delicate portraiture that feels simple but is revealed through a skilled understanding of the dance between content and form.