#MeToo spread virally in October 2017 and has been used on social media to help demonstrate the widespread prevalence of sexual assault and harassment. Social activist and community organizer Tarana Burke created the phrase “Me Too” on Myspace in 2006 as part of a grassroots campaign to promote “empowerment through empathy” among women of color who […]
Autumn Konopka, born and raised in the Philadelphia area, has an M.F.A. in creative writing from Antioch University and a B.A. in English writing and communications from the University of Pittsburgh. Autumn has published work in several journals, and she is deeply interested in the relationship between the arts and socioeconomic class. Autumn has hosted […]
Jacob, Willard and Goby work together as a creative collective. Writing under the name Jacob Russell, they have published three chapbooks, many poems, and have four books of poetry searching for publishers. In recent years, their collective has been writing serial poems, interconnected, but in no particular order, or rather—ordered to the mood of the occasion—as […]
