Wren Awry

I facilitated this virtual workshop through the University of Arizona Museum of Art in December 2021. While this post can in no way capture the thought-provoking and vulnerable conversations/sharing that happened in that space, I wanted to share the curriculum here for anyone who may be interested: We opened with Audre Lorde’s poem “Sowing.” We…

Food and cooking have always been an essential part of anti-capitalist and anti-authoritarian movements, mutual aid, and organizing. This anthology, to be published by PM Press (likely in 2022), endeavors to collect some of these kitchen- and food-focused testimonies, memories, and histories. The anthology is rooted in an interview series I conducted between 2018 and…

“Our grief–our feelings, as words and actions, images and practices–can open up cracks in the walls of the system. It can also pry open spaces of contestation and reconstruction, intervulnerability and strength, empathy and solidarity. It can discomfort the stories told from above that would have us believe we aren’t human or deserving of life-affirming…

In October-November 2019, I taught a four-week class called “Food Is Connected to Everything: Writing the Culinary Essay” at the UA Poetry Center. One of my goals in teaching this course was to create a free, online curriculum for other people interested in food writing, especially those of us who want to read work by…

Sarah Gzemski made this broadside of “Neon Cowboy”, a poem originally published in my 2017 Ghost City Press chapbook Shard Atlas.