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| PA Humanities inaugural Window Keeper: Civic Honorees. Honored to be included. Here is a link to learn more: The Window Keepers |
What does it mean to be recognized as an individual for work that is deeply collective?
I’m grateful to share that I’ve been selected by PA Humanities as one of its inaugural Window Keeper: Civic Honorees, a recognition of everyday leaders across Pennsylvania whose work strengthens community life and civic imagination.
While this honor is awarded to me as an individual, I am especially moved that one of the projects cited is a collaboration that involved many including poets Yolanda Wisher and Enoch the Poet.
I was part of a phenomenal team of Philly poets, students, and community partners whose work led to my students’ poems being installed in a local playground which is an act of placing young voices into public space and affirming that their words matter. This project, like so much of my work, is never mine alone.
That is the spirit that shapes my practice. Whether through short fiction, audio storytelling, or community-based projects, I work in relationship with history, with place, and with people. I move in the collective, even when the recognition carries a single name.
If you’d like to learn more about the students’ poetry installation project, please see video below.
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