The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world.

This week’s Artist Resistance in Residence is Oakland-based poet and author Lauren Wheeler. Lauren has a new book of poetry out on Nomadic Press called In Between Places. In Between Places lyrically explores family mythology and the fallibility of memory. The poems act as mile markers in a Black woman’s literal and figurative journey across decades and across the country, in a search for home in different cities—and people. From a sense of longing and displacement, the collection arrives in a place of stability, resilience, and triumph.

Follow Lauren Wheeler on Twitter: https://twitter.com/fightingwords

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