Enjoy this audio recording of “My Brother Who Doesn’t Speak to Our Mother Comes to Visit” by Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor from Vol. 27:1 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here.
Professor of TESOL and World Language Education in the Department of Language and Literacy Education, Dr. Cahnmann-Taylor’s honors include a 2017 Richard Ruiz Scholar-Artist Residency Award (Guanajuato, MX); 2015 Beckman Award for Professors Who Inspire, a 2013-14 Fulbright Award (Oaxaca, Mexico), and several Pushcart Prize nominations.
Cahnmann-Taylor has published Imperfect Tense (Whitepoint Press, 2016) and co-authored two books in education: Teachers Act Up: Creating Multicultural Learning Communities Through Theatre (Teachers College Press, 2010) and Arts-Based Research in Education (Routledge 2008, second edition In Press). Her numerous poems, essays, and articles about language learning have been published in the Georgia Review, American Poetry Review, Women’s Quarterly Review, Cream City Review, Barrow Street, Puerto Del Sol, Mom Egg, Anthropology and Humanism, Language Arts, TESOL Journal, and many other literary and scholarly homes.
She judges the annual Anthropology & Humanism poetry contest and is the editor of the journal’s ethnographic poetry section. She publishes Misha’s Poetry Cast [featuring poets on poetry and language education] and runs an annual “Seat in the Shade” poetry series in Athens, Georgia. She aims to raise two Spanish-English bilingual-bicultural children and to enhance Americans’ access to world languages, creative literacies, and multicultural humilities. Follow her blog at http://teachersactup.com