Five Turkish men and women who fled their homeland and President Erdogan's authoritarian regime speak of their fears, what they left behind, and their ...
Turkey: a defining moment in our democracy
by Sean Siple On May 16th, 2017, on the same day that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited US President Donald Trump at the White House, ...
Action Steps for Justice in Turkey
by Amanda Cantrell Roche Turkey has held a special place in my heart since I travelled there as a guest on a Culture and Dialogue Turkey Trip in ...
Shouts and Tears … processing our new reality
On January 13, 2017 Nashville’s Dark Horse Theater held space for Jessica Malone’s vision and Actor’s Bridge Ensemble’s open call to local artists to ...
Never said his name
Joshua Crandall Lee was born to one Shaunel Lee in June of 1977. In February of this year he shared this poem to the Nashville Skyline tribe and asked ...
Punctuation is going to have wait …
Stammering, stalling, stuttering, stung by a raw cut and a douse of astringent, Letting out air, dripping blood, drowning in fear and shame and ...
The Power of We
My voice. My one voice. It’s message not original. nor cloaked in the power of art For there is no time for that This onslaught is too ...
changing under my bare feet
It was the steady fall of snowflakes, sticky and persistent throughout the cold night and the even colder morning --- that stripped away the feeling ...
The Vanishing Man ~ by Derik Pell
"Just when you think I'm in the palm of your hand You'll hear rattling bottles and clattering cans I'm a ghost in the grand stand a sack full of ...
Highway Herald ~ by Amanda Cantrell Roche
“I'm going to work for my sanity Give it everything I got Though so far I have cheated death I know someday I'll get caught Just living So here ...