Poet Shauna M. Morgan understands that feeling "weighed down by all of those things happening around us" can make writing even more challenging.

For her, it helps to remember "that generations of my forebears created art in times of abject crises and bore witness to what was happening."

On this episode, Shauna shares what she calls the "weight prompt." It will help you reflect on the subjects that feel heavy to you as well as the subjects that feel light.

About Shauna M. Morgan

Shauna M. Morgan is a poet-scholar and Associate Professor of creative writing and Africana literature at the University of Kentucky.
 

Her poetry has appeared in A Gathering Together, Interviewing the Caribbean, and A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia, and her debut collection, Ground Provisions, was published by Peepal Tree Press in the United Kingdom. 

Shauna tends a small, hopeful provision ground at her home in the East End Artists’ Village in Lexington, and she continues to explore the environmental and cultural linkages between her rural Afro-Indo-Jamaican upbringing and her US-Kentucky life.