The Social Academic | Online Presence for Professors with Jennifer van Alstyne Writing, Radical Imagination, and Social Justice with Anthology Editor Dr. Andrea Rexilius
We Can See Into Another Place: Mile-High Writers on Social Justice (The Bookies Press and Bower House 2024) is a multi-genre anthology by writers and faculty at the Mile High MFA Program at Regis University in Denver, Colorado. In this featured interview, anthology editor Dr. Andrea Rexilius joins me to talk about social justice, radical imagination, and the power of storytelling.
Includes a short excerpt from Steven Dunn's book on Nas.
About the book: We Can See Into Another Place
In this thought-provoking, multi-genre anthology, editor Andrea Rexilius gathers some of Denver’s most inspiring literary voices to explore the nuances of social justice with unflinching candor. Through comic panels, short stories, nonfiction essays, plays and poetry, the collection beautifully illustrates how the written word, in all its forms, can impart healing and empower readers to seek social change.
Anthology contributors include:
Olivia Abtahi
R. Alan Brooks
Steven Dunn
Carolina Ebeid
Steven Cole Hughes
Kristen Iversen
Traci L. Jones
Tarashea Nesbit
Lori Ostlund
Khadijah Queen
Jenny Shank
Suzi Q. Smith
Christine Sneed
Mathangi Subramanian
Addie Tsai
Denise Vega
Rachel Weaver
Erika T. Wurth
David Heska
Wanbli Weiden
Co-published with The Bookies Press (formerly Book Bar Press)
https://www.bowerhousebooks.com/shop/we-can-see-into-another-place/
Dr. Andrea Rexilius is the author of Sister Urn (Sidebrow, 2019), New Organism: Essais (Letter Machine, 2014), Half of What They Carried Flew Away (Letter Machine, 2012), and To Be Human Is To Be A Conversation (Rescue Press, 2011), as well as the chapbooks, Séance (Coconut Books, 2014), To Be Human (Horseless Press, 2010), and Afterworld (above/ground press, 2020).
She earned an MFA in Poetry from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2005), and a PhD in Literature & Creative Writing from the University of Denver (2010). Andrea is the program director for Regis University’s Mile-High MFA in Creative Writing. She also teaches in the Poetry Collective at Lighthouse Writers Workshop in Denver, Colorado.
https://www.andrearexilius.net/
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