Tai Amri
Special guest
Tai is a graduate from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. He also is a recipient of the 2016, Kansas Langston Hughes poetry Award. He has also been a chief editor of many different publications, as well as a writer, poet, preacher, teacher and father.
Tai Amri has been a guest on 1 episode.
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86. Tai Amri Poetics: Beautiful Ashe
July 20th, 2022 | 46 mins 56 secs
buddhism, mindfulness, naropa university, on being, restorative community, restorative justice
"I started Allies in Action at Naropa while I was there as a student, and also was the editor of Tendril, which was a journal on diversity. And that really came out of my feelings of like, man it’s really hard being black in Boulder, and being black at Naropa was also very difficult. And — and I was getting triggered all the time, and micro-aggressions, which I didn’t have language for at the time, I just like, I’m not gonna be able to graduate from here if I don’t do something to try to change it. And Allies in Action was really like - how do we address unaddressed privilege and oppression in the school environment? And I feel like B.L.A.C.K Lawrence tries to do a lot of that, as well as how do we create space for black creators in a place where there’s not a lot of us.”