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Colin James Sturdevant on igniting expression through poetry


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We catch up with Colin on building Pass the Salt Presse. He shares on how  connecting over cake at Empire Cafe lead to starting a new life time project. His Montrose Grace Place poetry project shifted from academic-style workshops to paying unhoused LGBTQ youth to write, by focusing on practical ways to keep creating when you feel stuck.

• building Pass the Salt Press as a community-first literary nonprofit
• learning from an early workshop model that felt too academic
• paying youth poets and why small payments change everything
• publishing anthologies as resume builders and proof of work
• reducing barriers with freewrites, gentle edits, and “listening poet” drafting
• sustaining the work through gratitude, donations, and realistic print budgets
• why in-person tabling and storytelling sells more than social posts
• practical advice for beating writer’s block by building from past work and seeking live art

To find out more connect with him here: https://www.passthesaltpresse.org/

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