Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg is the Poet Laureate of Kansas, and the author or editor of 24 books, including her new book How Time Moves: New and Selected Poems (Meadowlark Press). Some of her other books include Chasing Weather (Ice Cube Press); the novels Miriam's Well (Ice Cube Press) and The Divorce Girl (Ice Cube Press); non-fiction Needle in the Bone: How a Holocaust Survivor and Polish Resistance Fighter Beat the Odds and Found Each Other (University of Nebraska Press); memoirs Everyday Magic (Meadowlark Press), The Sky Begins At Your Feet: A Memoir on Cancer, Community & Coming Home to the Body (Ice Cube Press).
Founder of Transformative Language Arts –social and personal transformation through the written, spoken and sung word (TLANetwork.org), Mirriam-Goldberg leads writing workshops widely, and coaches and consults with people and groups on creativity. With singer Kelley Hunt, she co-writes songs, she offers Brave Voice retreats (BraveVoice.com), and with storyteller Laura Packer, Your Right Livelihood trainings for writers, artists, changemakers, and more (YourRightLivelihood.com).
“When I was a girl I didn't know/I was a girl. I thought I was/more of a pigment, a choral tone,/some kind of weather that disrupts everyone's life in the living room.”