{"product_id":"poetry-as-spellcasting-isbn-9781623177195","title":"Poetry as Spellcasting","description":"\u003cb\u003ePoems, essays, and prompts to sing a new world into being--Queer \u0026amp; BIPOC perspectives on poetry as an insurgent ritual for manifesting liberation and reclaiming power.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten for poets, spellcasters, and social justice witches, \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoetry as Spellcasting\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the ways poetry and ritual can, together, move us toward justice and transformation. It asks: \u003ci\u003eIf ritualized violence upholds white supremacy, what ritualized acts of liberation can be activated to subvert and reclaim power?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn essays from a diverse group of contributing poets, organizers, and ritual artists, \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoetry as Spellcasting\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e helps readers explore, play, and deepen their creativity and intuition as integral tools for self- and communal healing and social change. Each section opens with a poem and includes prompts that invite the reader to engage more deeply with:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePortals of Inheritance: Ancestral Teachings, Possible Futures \u003c\/b\u003eopens portals to messages from ancestors and for survival\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eLanguages of Liberation, Disruption, and Magic\u003c\/b\u003e explores how poetry and spellcasting allow us to enter into and harness language in active, heightened ways that both reflect reality and manifest alternatives.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eInvoking Radical Imagination\u003c\/b\u003e leans into the incantatory possibilities of poetry as prayer and poetry as enchantment.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eSacred Practices: Rituals of Repair and Revision\u003c\/b\u003e explores writing as ritual, ritual as practice, and practice as doing, drawing connections between the creative practices of poetry and spellwork.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eLighting Fires, Breaking Chains \u003c\/b\u003efocuses on the explicitly magical and political nature of poetry as spellcasting.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eElemental Ecologies, Spiritual Technologies \u003c\/b\u003ewrestles with concepts of home, colonization, and belonging\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBoth poetry and occult studies have been historically dominated by white, cishet writers; here, Poetry as Spellcasting reclaims the centrality of queer and BIPOC voices in poetry, magic, and liberatory spellwork.“Reading \u003ci\u003ePoetry As Spellcasting\u003c\/i\u003e, I kept lighting my altar, kept nourishing my body with fragrant oranges as I dreamt, wandered, and envisioned. This is a book for us, for opening up the creative portals toward liberation, one tender prompt at a time. I felt held by these rituals and poems, felt myself move deeply into spaces of collective care. Alongside contributions from luminaries such as Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Joan Naviyuk Kane, and Ching-In Chen, the editors invoke magic through heart-igniting reflections and vibrational prompts, beautifully reminding us of our woven power: ‘In this new mythology, you are always whole.’”\u003cbr\u003e—Jane Wong, author of \u003ci\u003eHow to Not Be Afraid of Everything\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Spellbinding, nourishing, and needed! \u003ci\u003ePoetry as Spellcasting\u003c\/i\u003e is unbounding and delivers a world of magic, incantations, and poetry for your spirit, skins, and memories to taste, discover, unfold, shed, and tend to the alchemy of our lives. Like rock candy or bubbles to the tongue, swallow and repeat to feel all your senses come alive, initiating a psychic surrender, embodiment, and deepening of why and how poets of color are casting spells for radically transformative, imaginative healing for our prayerful liberatory futures. Listen.”\u003cbr\u003e—Cara Page, cofounder of Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective, founder of Changing Frequencies, and coauthor of \u003ci\u003eHealing Justice Lineages\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003ePoetry as Spellcasting\u003c\/i\u003e is both alluring and substantive, gentle yet revolutionary. A provoking collection of poems and essays, this powerful book is sure to evoke inspiration, action, and reflection for readers.”\u003cbr\u003e—Maria Minnis, author of \u003ci\u003eAnti-Racism with the Tarot\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003ePoetry As Spellcasting\u003c\/i\u003e is an anthology I have been looking for all my writing life. Have you ever felt something so far from the ‘norm’ you just kept it to yourself? You talk to people with ancient names in a little place behind the eye(s), and you were once sure if anyone ever found out about this place, they would come and take you away, and you’ll never see your mama again. Poetry As Spellcasting lets me know I am not alone in these southern Black ways of being. I keep thinking, what if my mama had this book when she was in high school? What kind of portal could it have been? \u003ci\u003ePoetry As Spellcasting\u003c\/i\u003e has set a new stage for what an anthology can be and how much it can do.”\u003cbr\u003e—Tyree Daye, author of \u003ci\u003eCardinal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003ePoetry as Spellcasting\u003c\/i\u003e gathers insightful and courageous provocations to affirm and amplify the world-shaping magics in our language. By our, I mean those of us laboring at the sites where devastation and (re)generation meet. By magics, I mean our capacities for care, transformation, and continuance. I received the spells in this book as gifts of renewal, as a summoning of the elements that activate our intentional presence, here and there, now and ever, among the countless trajectories of a hurting and beloved home-as-it-is-yet-to-be. The voices in this circle call me to pay closer attention, to commit to the discipline of repair, to begin again with grace.”\u003cbr\u003e—Cynthia Dewi Oka, author of \u003ci\u003eFire Is Not a Country\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Alive, potent, and opening roads for and by multiple voices and beings, \u003ci\u003ePoetry as Spellcasting\u003c\/i\u003e is as much a work of art as a Spirit guidebook to our collective future. These are processes that embolden our purposes as healers and writers. The quiet space before anything is written lives here, echoes across time calling forth ways in the direction of our necessary un-doing for tomorrow. Grandmas, ritual sites, and plant medicine—all in poetry. \u003ci\u003ePoetry as Spellcasting\u003c\/i\u003e holds possibilities needed for our future, ways of writing that are not trapped, that go beyond the world as we have known it. Power is encapsulated in its most genuine and raw form. Power towards liberation for all beings. A holy, magical, unknowing that releases us into transcendence. These poem-makers invite all beings to stay, to imagine, to transcend, to transgress, to magic, and to make possible.”\u003cbr\u003e—Marlanda Dekine, author of \u003ci\u003eThresh \u0026amp; Hold\u003c\/i\u003eTamiko Beyer is the author of the poetry collections \u003ci\u003eLast Days\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWe Come Elemental\u003c\/i\u003e. Her poetry and articles have been published by \u003ci\u003eDenver Quarterly, Black Warrior Review, Lit Hub,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ethe Rumpus\u003c\/i\u003e. Beyer publishes \u003ci\u003eStarlight and Strategy,\u003c\/i\u003e a monthly newsletter for living life wide awake and shaping change.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDestiny Hemphill is a Black daughter of the U.S. South with nearly a decade of experience in co-creating spaces devoted to poetry, communion, and transformation. She has received fellowships from Tin House, Callaloo, and Naropa University, and is a co-poetry editor of \u003ci\u003eSouthern Cultures.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLisbeth White has worked in private practices as an arts therapist for 13 years, supporting individual and community mental health. She has facilitated community-based workshops for healing justice work, including Black artist-activist residencies at Blue Mountain Center, and has taught and coordinated healing spaces for Black Love Convergence, BIPOC yoga teacher trainings, and Parenting for Liberation. She is the author of the poetry collection \u003ci\u003eAmerican Sycamore.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"North Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302602461413,"sku":"NP9781623177195","price":20.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781623177195.jpg?v=1767734918","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/poetry-as-spellcasting-isbn-9781623177195","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}