“Poetry for the Public’s Health” Launch
With fellow section co-editors Dr. LeConté Dill and Shanaé Burch, we dreamed up, developed, and launched the first-ever standing peer-reviewed poetry section in an academic public health journal!
Poetry for the Public’s Health
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“...we seek a public health forged not by the silhouettes of our bodies threaded between points on a regression, but by the breath and warmth of our full lives—our words, our affirmations, our embodied knowledges woven within an unapologetically humanized and feeling canon capable of honoring the weight of our pasts, the gravity of our presents/presence, and the struggles and joys of our futures. Public health at the margins, like life itself there/here, must be understood as a site of resistance and source of radical possibility. It must be as much block party as it is wake, as much second line as it is dirge, as much spring break as it is final exam. That’s the future we seek.”