creative writing.Tayana Hardin teaches and writes about African American literature and its creative and historical connections to dance, music, and visual art. She fondly remembers her granddaddy’s front porch philosophizing on summer nights in central Kentucky.
HR Hegnauer is the author of SIR (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs). She is a book designer and website designer specializing in working with independent publishers as well as individual artists and writers. HR is a member of the feminist publishing collaborative Belladonna*, and the poets’ theater group GASP: Girls Assembling Something Perpetual. She received her MFA in Writing & Poetics from Naropa University, where she has also taught in the Summer Writing Program. Recently, HR finished her MBA degree from the University of Denver.
Idris Goodwin is a playwright, rapper and essayist. His plays include HOW WE GOT ON, REMIX 38 (Actors Theater of Louisville); AND IN THIS CORNER: CASSIUS CLAY(StageOne Family Theater), THIS IS MODERN ART co written with Kevin Coval (Steppenwolf Theatre), BLACK FLAG (Summer Shorts/59E59Theatre), BLACKADEMICS (MPAACT, Crowded Fire), BARS AND MEASURES ( B Street Theatre, NNPN RWP), THE RAID (Jackalope Theatre) and The REALNESS:
a break beat play (Merrimack Repertory Theatre).
An accomplished spoken word performer and break beat poet, his albums include BREAK BEAT POEMS and RHYMING WHILE BLACK. Goodwin was featured on HBO, Sesame Street and Discovery Channel. He is the author of the pushcart nominated essay collection THESE ARE THE BREAKS (Write Bloody, 2011) and his work is anthologized widely.
Idris is the co host and contributor to CRITICAL KARAOKE, a radio show and podcast about music and culture. Idris teaches performance writing and Hip Hop aesthetics at Colorado College.
The Dikeou Literary Series is currently organized by Mairead Case. Case is a working writer in Colorado. Currently she is a PhD student at the University of Denver, the organizer of the Dikeou Literary Series, and a teacher at Naropa University and the Denver Women’s Correctional Facility. Previously she worked at the Poetry Foundation Library, Louder Than a Bomb, and the Public Media Institute. Mairead is the author of the novel See You In the Morning (featherproof) and Tenderness, a poetry chapbook. // maireadcase.tumblr.com
