(Re)Active Praxis: Inside a surreal black studio, my students and I, we dance

Abstract

In this lyrical reflective essay in four parts, I ruminate on teaching as poetics, the teaching of contemporary poetry, the teaching of histories of settler colonialism and antiblackness inherent in curriculum design, and teaching as adoration. I practice teaching to learn how to move with and love my students, to encourage them to move with and love their future students. I then reflect on my practice after and in between meditation, so the poetics here is an invitation to meditation.