Hello- thanks for listening. Here are a bunch of links to the various poems and resources from my keynote at the 2023 IMPACT conference, in more or less the order they were mentioned in my talk. I hope they can be useful!

• Poem for the First Day of the Poetry Unit in Language Arts Class (Video + Full Text)
• For more background on spoken word: Ten Things Everyone Should Know About Spoken Word and Slam Poetry
• A big list of spoken word poem videos (including a few of my personal favorites, plus a few playlists of poem videos organized by topic/issue)
• Narrative Resources:
  • Ricardo Levins Morales: Tending The Soil–Lessons For Organizing (Zine plus free PDFs)
  • Narrative Initiative’s What is Narrative? page.
  • ReFrame
  • Define American
  • Race Forward’s Butterfly Lab for Immigrant Narrative Strategy
  • Demos’ Race-Class Narrative Project
• Quicksand (Full Text + KTM’s TEDx Talk)
• How Do We Build a Culture of Consent? (Zine)
• Deepa Iyer’s Social Change Ecosystem Map
• Examples of “hooks” drawn from my own work:
  • Ten Responses to the Phrase “Man Up”
  • To Throw a Wrench in the Blood Machine
  • How to Explain White Supremacy to a White Supremacist
  • Consent at 10,000 Feet (didn’t necessarily “go viral,” but is used in consent trainings around the US)
  • Love in the Time of Undeath (sampled by producer Fred Again)
• An MPD150 link with other links to explore Minneapolis’ “abolitionist ecosystem”
• Hope Does Not Glimmer; It Burns: Quotes on Hope, Resistance & Possibility (Zine)
• A Pragmatist’s Guide to Magic (Full Text and Video)

My book, Not a Lot of Reasons to Sing, But Enough, is available here.

And while you’re here on this site, please feel free to check out my poetry page, zines page, and especially my booking page for info on how to bring me to your school, organization, or other space. Thank you!