Liberation as Poetic Form
A Zine from Mississippi (Part 2)
This is Part 2 of our collaboration with the creators of the Liberation as Poetic Form (LPF) Zine. (Check out Part 1!) The LPF workshop was led by poet C.T. Salazar in September 2024, bringing together over twenty poets with geographical, genealogical, historical, political, and psychological ties to Mississippi. The zine pulls together original poems written by twelve members of the first LPF workshop. The collage-work and layout for each page was done by C.T. Salazar, Rachel Guerry, Margaret Lawson, and Anastasia Taylor. The full zine was riso printed by Jackson-based book designer Connor Frew.
Naomi Buck Palagi has roots throughout the south and in Chicago. She hosts a virtual and in-person arts and culture exchange at allinthesamebreath.org.
Anastasia Taylor is an artist and poet who creates works that ties their local experiences to global ones. They are a member of Jackson State's Writer's Alliance and the editor of THEE 1877, a creative magazine hosted through JSWA.
Hiba Tahir is a YA author and 2022 graduate of the University of Arkansas MFA, where she received the Carolyn Walton Cole Endowment Fund, the J. Chester and Freda S. Johnson Graduate Fellowship, and the James T. Whitehead Award. She is the recipient of a 2024 Artists 360 Community Activator grant and a 2020 Artists 360 Student Artist grant from Mid-America Arts Alliance, as well as an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Arkansas Arts Council in 2021. She is the founder and host of Tightwires, a YouTube channel and podcast about navigating life and art outside academic and institutional confines.
Walker A. S. is a non-binary black writer and interdisciplinary artist. their visual practice ranges from portraiture, mixed media collage, & photography; this practice meets their wordsmith work in the production of zines, graffiti font work, and archive development. their current research involves illegibility, grief, poetry of protest, and asking everyone about their favorite monster myths.
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Liberation as Poetic Form
In September 2024, over twenty poets with geographical, genealogical, historical, political, and psychological ties to Mississippi came together for a poetry workshop inspired by a grassroots tradition of action in the state.