Archives: Teachers/Speakers

As one listener put it, Carrie Wicks sings like a “lazy angel.” With a rich timbre and deep musicality, her voice is both viscerally compelling and relaxing, whether she’s exploring the

Shelby Handler is a writer, translator, and organizer with Jewish Voice for Peace. Recent work has appeared in and or is forthcoming in Poetry, The Iowa Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Redivider,

Paul Hlava Ceballos is the author of banana [ ], which won the AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry and the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award.

Architect, technologist and writer Simin Paksirat lived in Iran most of her life, and came to the US several years ago. She has lived in Chicago and Seattle, and is