The Tennessee Commission on Children and Youth (TCCY) is a state agency with a primary mission of advocacy for improving the quality of life for Tennessee children and families. In May 2023 he will publish his first poetry book for children, And I climbed, And I Climbed, through Troika Books.TCCY's Mission. Stephen has been widely published, has spoken at events from Shambala to San Antonio, and is the author of two poetry collections for adults Only Air and The Last Custodian (both from Burning Eye Books). Stephen Lightbown is a poet, yoga teacher and surfer who writes extensively but not exclusively about life as a wheelchair user. She is a proud pit bull parent, and she edits the Soul Food column for Communist Review. She is an Associate Editor at Culture Matters, and member of the new Editorial Advisory Board for the Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry. Wilson Poetry Fellow at Cambridge University. Her most recent chapbook is Forever Alive (Dare-Gale Press, 2022), and her most recent collections are Hyena! (Poetry Bus Press, 2021), Hyena! Jackal! Dog! (Pamenar Press, 2021) and White/ Other (87 Press, 2022). His books are published by Flipped Eye, Akashic, Nine Arches, Penned In The Margins, Oberon & Methuen.įran Lock is the author of numerous chapbooks and ten poetry collections. Identity, Displacement & Destiny are reoccurring themes in his work, where he tries to mix the old with the new: traditional African oral storytelling with contemporary poetics, paint with pixel, texture with vector. Stephen Lightbown’s the Last Custodian puts a paraplegic centre-stage in the fallout of an apocalypse.įeaturing readings and a panel discussion.īorn in Nigeria, Inua Ellams is a poet, playwright & performer, graphic artist & designer and founder of: The Midnight Run (an arts-filled, night-time, urban walking experience.), The Rhythm and Poetry Party (The R.A.P Party) which celebrates poetry & hip hop, and Poetry + Film / Hack (P+F/H) which celebrates Poetry and Film. Fran Lock is a member of Culture Matters, who fight for ‘our cultural struggle or ‘mental fight’ against class divisions’, and her most recent book White / Other grapples with the complexities of writing and living from the white working-class “other” within neo-liberal culture. Globally celebrated Inua Ellams’s most recent collection, The Actual, tackles empire and its legacies of racism, injustice and toxic masculinity.
Can art change the way society behaves? What can happen when we write through rage, and speak out against injustice? This event brings together three poets who have all written in response to socio-political inequalities.
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