{"title":"Tamiko Beyer","description":"Tamiko Beyer is the author of the poetry collections Last Days and We Come Elemental. Her poetry and articles have been published by Denver Quarterly, Black Warrior Review, Lit Hub,  and the Rumpus. Beyer publishes Starlight and Strategy,  a monthly newsletter for living life wide awake and shaping change.","products":[{"product_id":"poetry-as-spellcasting-poems-essays-and-prompts-for-manifesting-liberation-and-reclaiming-power-paperback","title":"Poetry as Spellcasting: Poems, Essays, and Prompts for Manifesting Liberation and Reclaiming Power - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\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 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51317763604703,"sku":"9781623177195","price":20.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/4ZCdr4x3a9781623177195.webp?v=1788348458"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/tamiko-beyer.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}