I'm telling you, I'm ready to go to the next level and talking about students about their writing. I'm going to be on the next level about talking about safety and belonging. I'm going to talk about engagement and how students need to find a way to engage with the course and not just left it off. And most importantly the idea of ethics. We all need a moral compass and ethics means not using chat gpt. It means truly finding a way to engage.
And when I tell them I'm using trauma informed basis for their field of study, I'm definitely going to talk about what that means. It doesn't mean calling people snowflakes. It means the reality that there are people who would benefit from having empathy and the use of ethics that they could be trusted and everyone could win.
Let me tell you about my friend Tony who's into real estate. He was having a hard time closing on a house as the sellers all of the sudden decided to raise the cost a slight bit just as the buyers knew they really wanted that house. The sellers wanted more money. On the day at the closing.
So Tony got with the seller realtor and said let's take a cut out of our paycheck. Let's just write off what we would normally make because we want to make these people happy.
Really the time and money the Realtors put in, the time the buyers put in, everyone would win win even though the Realtors weren't going to make as much.
But really Tony did it because he wanted these people to get the house. These are people he spent time with and got to know on that personal level that people can choose to have or not to have.
So I know there are car sales people who are taught that it's all about the sale and the scam, to see how much money you can get. And I know there are sales people out there who just want to get someone in a car they can afford.
Your moral compass and ethics which will sell them have to do with how much money you can make off of someone. If you're already trying to scam someone or get the most out of someone, you are probably compromising your ethics.
Jericho
and I are so excited to offer TX200: Movies, Myth, and the Mind this
Fall! In a nutshell, our course is exploring how films—esp. in a movie
theater--are contemporary mythology, can be sites for self-care, and can
be like a religious experience. It is a mashup of cognitive and social
psychology with therapy, religious studies, mythology, and poetry,
examining why we can feel like kids again, feel deep empathy or relate
to characters that we don't feel as so alone or an outcast, or leave transformed by a movie in conjunction with a theater experience.
So after reading through the different pedagogical approaches, as well as finding ways to implement them, I want to try to Summarize each pedagogy in the way I found repeating themes or ideas.
Of course, these words would lead to discussions, and they're definitely needs to explain why for those naysayers, but here it is:
First generation best practices: Belonging
Anti-racist pedagogy: Equity
Ungrading: Freedom
Trauma informed pedagogy: Safety
Of course there is overlap, but these are my Impressions right now after spending this semester intensely looking overall and again at these pedagogies.
Come join us at 21c Museum Hotel, a
short walk from the Kansas City Convention Center, for a dynamic reading
of poetry that crosses fields of nurturance, crisis, connection,
catastrophe, hope. Eighteen poet moms, drawing from a variety of poetic
practices and traditions, will share work that occupies the overlapping
spaces of our lives—war zone and garden, city and body, climate and
house, populace and child. Readers include Tess Taylor, Iris Jamahl
Dunkle, Keetje Kuipers, Nicole Callihan, Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach, among
others. Cash bar opens at 5:30 p.m. in Gallery One, reading starts at
6:00 p.m. in Main Gallery.
Five
Kansas LGBTQ writers of memoir and poetry discuss how Kansas influences
their writing in both representation and resistance. How do LGBTQ+
poets and writers draw on the landscape of Kansas, from the Tallgrass
Prairie to the Flint Hills? How is memoir and poetry shaped by writing
as survival? How has prose and poetry played a role in coming out? How
does community play a role in subject matter and support in LGBTQ+
writing? This panel will be a lively conversation about Kansas queer
writing.
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10:35 am to 11:50 am
Room 2503AB, Kansas City Convention Center, Level 2
Lauded
essayists discuss experiments with form, including fragmentary
approaches to narrative, and how they leave space for both readers and
writers to approach subject matter about difficult legacies. How does
the use of fragments allow ways into incomplete or contested family and
cultural narratives around war trauma; religious persecution; racial,
sexual, and gender identity; and violence? How might fragmented
narrative further the possibilities for sharing and transmuting
difficult legacies?
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12:10 pm to 1:25 pm
Room 2504AB, Kansas City Convention Center, Level 2
Combating
stigmas and shame culture surrounding mental health, writers share
poetry, nonfiction, and cross-genre work that embraces autism spectrum
disorder, Anxiety, ADHD, OCD, Bipolar, and depression. These writers
refuse to hide from or mask within an ableist society and through
content and form, call attention to the creative powers of
neurodiversity. They will share their work and discuss how their craft
choices transform neurotypical language into a neurodiverse universe.
Johnson County Library is excited to
be hosting an open mic event in Kansas City. Open to all, we want to
hear your work and share a little bit of ours. Bring poems, short
stories, essays, and excerpts to share on the stage, or come just to
listen. Sign up at the event; three-minute limit. We’ll gather to snack
and network at 6:00 p.m. Open mic will be from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Food provided by Olive + Co.
8:00 pm to 9:30 pm
Grand Ballroom A, Kansas City Convention Center, Level 2
Jericho
Brown is the recipient of a Whiting Award in Poetry and fellowships
from the Academy of American Poets, the John Simon Guggenheim
Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard
University, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Brown’s first book,
Please (2008), won the 2009 American Book Award. His second book, The New Testament (2014), won the 2015 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and was named one of the best of the year by Library Journal, Coldfront, and the Academy of American Poets. He is also the author of the collection The Tradition
(2019), which was a finalist for the 2019 National Book Award and the
winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. His poems have appeared in
Buzzfeed, The Nation, the New York Times, the New Yorker, The New Republic, Time, and The Pushcart Prize Anthology, and several volumes of The Best American Poetry anthologies.
This event will take place in person in the Kansas City Convention
Center and will be livestreamed for virtual audiences. All livestreamed
events include open captio
Friday, February 9
7:30am
Messenger Coffee chat with Ryan
10am Blue Bird Bistro
https://maps.app.goo.gl/KKE6vZg5tt4MqpnT7
12pm Room 2101, Kansas City Convention Center, Street Level
In Story
(1997), Robert McKee proposed the Hero's Journey serves as a universal
outline for many stories and encouraged its use for screenplays. In this
panel, we will explore if this is still true. What are the steps in the
HJ? How have screenwriters borrowed from its structure? What films
deviate from the HJ norm and how? What other "journeys" can
screenwriters use when crafting their stories? The panelists will
include films which focus on diverse represenation to discuss these
questions.
3:00 to 3:30 pm: Jasmine Sawers will be signing copies of The Anchored World at Table 1815 in the bookfair.
4:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Brewery Emperial, 1829 Oak St., Kansas City, MO 64108
BlazeVOX Book invites you to a
reading of its recent authors during happy hour at the singular Brewery
Emperial in downtown Kansas City, just minutes walk from the conference.
Featured readers include: Timothy Bradford, Grant Matthew Jenkins,
Allison Blevins, Vi Khi Nao, Jessica Alexander, Cheryl Pallant, K. D.
Harryman, Dana Curtis, Elizabeth Friedman, Emily Toder, Dennis Etzel
Jr., Joseph Harrington, E. J. McAdams.
Absolutely everything. While many view grief only as tragedy, these four writers dive in to find connection, community, love, and joy. An exploration of their writing shows the value of investigating grief and specific ways of doing so on the page. In this moderated Q&A, panelists showcase how they approach grief, the importance of doing so, the ethics of including those gone, and the various craft techniques used to find value in mourning.
5pm Dinner with a Mentor
My students and I get together to talk about the great time we had!
would be a drive
7pm
Blip Roasters, 1301 Woodswether Rd, Kansas City, MO
Riot in Your Throat & Small Harbor Publishing: An Off-site Poetry Reading
An
off-site poetry reading featuring poets from Riot in Your Throat and
Small Harbor Publishing. Reading will be Saturday, February 10 at 7:00
p.m. at Blip Roasters (1301 Woodswether Rd, Kansas City). $5.00 cover.
Lineup includes: Anna Leahy, Laura Passin, Sarah Freligh, Allison
Blevins, Meghan Sterling, Sonia Greenfield, Courtney LeBlanc, Darren C.
Demaree, Melissa Fite Johnson, and Kathryn Bratt-Pfotenhauer.
Contact: Courtney LeBlanc
Contact Email:
riotinyourthroat@gmail.com
