by Cheryl Pallant | Mar 23, 2016 | writing
At this year’s Los Angeles AWP (Association of Writers and Writing Programs), Jeanetta Calhoun Mish, Leslie Samuels Entsminger, Jan Freeman, Renee Olander, and myself participated in a panel called Literary Foremothers and Filling the Gaps. We wanted to honor...
by Cheryl Pallant | Oct 2, 2015 | collaboration, creative writing
Imagine, if you will, that you are falling from an airplane, mind you, without a parachute. You last remembered reading the in-flight magazine, then the airplane shuddering more violently that normal. Nervous about the less than smooth ride, for reassurance you turn...
by Cheryl Pallant | Aug 17, 2015 | publishing
Don’t miss my upcoming Writing From the Body workshop Sept 12 and HeartPath: A Couple’s Workshop Nov 21 in Richmond VA. Oklahoma’s wonderful This Land Press is welcoming me with three recent publications: “A Great Passage” deals with the death of my...
by Cheryl Pallant | May 29, 2015 | body awareness, dance, somatic practice, spirituality
When I fleshtalk about my bodyflesh which brings to mindflesh organismic waves of fleshbeingspirit, my tendency, at least years ago, was to assert mental control over all of me in whatever way possible. Knowing, I was taught, occurs through rumination and cogitation,...
by Cheryl Pallant | Mar 21, 2015 | Blog, writing
I’m headed to the Midwest in a few weeks to teach Writing From the Body and Contact Improvisation and to read from my works. Join me in Minneapolis MN and Viroqua WI! Poetry Reading April 9 at 514 Studios, Minneapolis MN Contact Improvisation Workshop April 13...