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"The Shaya I Know" Children's Book
I collaborated on a children's book last year with my partner, hanging mobile artist Eldad Arad. The storyline follows Shaya, a child who needs help deciding how to spend her day. Wise Grandma Gaya has many ideas for her, and changes her mind about how much the world has to offer. Written in rhyming couplets, the book is perfect for early readers to practice their emerging skills, and is for sale on Eldad's website using the link below. Sample pages below!
Interview with Queens Gazette
Click the link below to read an interview I did with the Queens Gazette about my work as a poet and teaching artist.
"The intersection of poetry and body wisdom means to me the practice of writing from an intuitive place rather than a cognitive or rational one. I find myself focused on it because it’s actually one of my struggles—I’m someone who has a very logistical and linear part of my brain that is active for a lot of the day, and I can have trouble turning that off when I’m getting into my poetry. It’s like the part of my brain that wants to tell a story from beginning to end in a highly organized and sequential way, rather than writing from a place of emergence, where I let myself surprise myself. I want to find that place that is less concerned with order or the “point,” and has surrendered control of steering the ship. I think getting to that place where the creative self finds a flow requires being grounded in the body, because I want to write from a place that’s in touch with deep feeling, and in touch with sensory experience. That’s the place where something really moving can happen, especially when it comes to poetry."
"The intersection of poetry and body wisdom means to me the practice of writing from an intuitive place rather than a cognitive or rational one. I find myself focused on it because it’s actually one of my struggles—I’m someone who has a very logistical and linear part of my brain that is active for a lot of the day, and I can have trouble turning that off when I’m getting into my poetry. It’s like the part of my brain that wants to tell a story from beginning to end in a highly organized and sequential way, rather than writing from a place of emergence, where I let myself surprise myself. I want to find that place that is less concerned with order or the “point,” and has surrendered control of steering the ship. I think getting to that place where the creative self finds a flow requires being grounded in the body, because I want to write from a place that’s in touch with deep feeling, and in touch with sensory experience. That’s the place where something really moving can happen, especially when it comes to poetry."