United Against Silence

United Against Silence


Latest Episodes

Carrying Our Roots with Raychelle Heath
May 06, 2022

This conversation with Raychelle Heath is part of CBAW's #UnitedAgainstSilence interview series.    Find more information and Raychelle's workshop offerings, such as her twice monthly meditation workshops, at www.theraychelleheath.com, and you c

Where a Poem is Going with Matthew Olzmann
April 22, 2022

This conversation with Matthew Olzmann is part of the #UnitedAgainstSilence podcast series.   When you shop using our Bookshop link, 10% of every purchase you make goes back to CBAW programs for military, veterans, healthcare workers, and civilians.

The Power of Defeat with Cynthia Dewi Oka
April 15, 2022

This conversation with Cynthia Dewi Oka is part of the #UnitedAgainstSilence interview series.  THU. APRIL 21 | 7PM ET | CONSIDERING OUR ANCESTORS WITH CYNTHIA DEWI OKA Cynthia Dewi Oka is the author of Fire Is Not A Country (Northwestern University

Creativity Under the Soil with Angie Ebba
April 08, 2022

This conversation with Angie Ebba is part of CBAW's #UnitedAgainstSilence interview series.   Angie Ebba is a queer disabled writer, artist, educator, activist, and performer. She is a published poet and essayist, who teaches and performs across the

Finding What Works for You with Ashy Palliparambil
March 11, 2022

This conversation with CBAW's Director of Programs Ashy Palliparambil is part of CBAW's #UnitedAgainstSilence interview series.  Ashy Palliparambil is an Art Therapist who has worked with service members and their families for over eight years. She h

What Lives Beyond Language with Jennifer Patterson
February 11, 2022

Jennifer Patterson is a grief worker who uses plants, breath, and words to explore survivorhood, body(ies) and healing. A  queer and trans affirming and centering, trauma-experienced herbalist  and breathwork facilitator, Jennifer offers sliding

Creating Where I Need to Create with Amber Flame
January 28, 2022

Amber Flame is an artist and performer, whose work has garnered artistic merit residencies with Hedgebrook, The Watering Hole, Wa Na Wari, Vermont Studio Center, and Yefe Nof. Flame served as the 2017-2019 poetry Writer-in-Residence at Hugo House in Seatt

First, We Gather with Hari Alluri
January 14, 2022

Hari Alluri (he/him/siya) is the author of The Flayed City (Kaya). A winner of the 2020 Leonard A. Slade, Jr. Poetry Fellowship and an editor at Locked Horn Press, he has received grants from the BC Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts and fel

The Abundance of Forgiveness with Dilruba Ahmed
December 17, 2021

Dilruba Ahmed is the author Bring Now the Angels (Pitt Poetry Series, 2020), with poems featured in New York Times Magazine, Best American Poetry 2019, and podcasts such as The Slowdown with Tracy K. Smith and Poetry Unbound with Pádraig Ó Tuama.  He

What Community Should Be with Courtney LeBlanc
December 03, 2021

Courtney LeBlanc is the author of the full length collections Exquisite Bloody, Beating Heart (Riot in Your Throat) and Beautiful & Full of Monsters (Vegetarian Alcoholic Press). She is also the founder and editor-in-chief of Riot in Your Throat, an i