Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor

Events

Melisa (Misha) Cahnmann-Taylor has given readings, craft talks, lectures, and workshops in the U.S. and around the world, including with International TESOL, the English Teachers Association of Israel, Georgia TESOL, MEX-TESOL, TESOL-Chile, Emory University, Kansas State University, University of Memphis, University of New Mexico, American Educational Research Association, American Anthropological Association, American Writing Programs, the Torrance Festival of Ideas, Atlanta Writers Club, Georgia Poetry Society, International Society for Language Studies, American Association of Applied Linguistics, Resplandor Guanajuato Mexico, and many others. 

Misha loves connecting with teachers, scholars, readers and writers. Complete the form on the contact page for booking inquiries and to start the conversation.

2024-2025 EVENTS

PAST events

  • March 18, 2024. A Language and Literacy Education Department (LLED) conversation about Israel-Palestine with Alaa Hedeeb. Live event is available on YouTube Link.
  • February 7-11 2024. AWP Kansas City, MO. Panel: Getting Non-Writers to Write: Teaching Outside of the English Department– with these outstanding co-panelists: Sabrina Orah Mark, Mihaela Moscaliucla Elline Lipkin and Deb Olin Unferth. Join us —
  • November 17, 2023. American Anthropology Association Panel: The Creative Ethnographer’s Notebook: A Transdisciplinary Roundtable and Workshop. Time: 4:15 PM – 6:00 PM, Virtual, Room 2
  • Oct 10-15; Dec. 5-17. Hambidge Artist Residency Rabun Gap, Georgia.
  • April & May 2023. “Big Read” program activities in Athens, GA featuring Ilya Kaminsky’s book, Deaf Republic.
  • March 10. 2023. 12:10pm Room F163. Stand (or sit) and deliver: Inviting Audiences into Poetry through Performance. American Writing Program (AWP). Seattle Convention Center, Level 3
  • Feb 9, 2023. Writing the “Not Me”–Dramatic Monologue and Persona Poems. Eastern Shore Writers Association. Link to presentation, here.
  • Feb 3, 2023. Weber State University Keynote in Arts Integration Conference, Ogden, Utah. More information online.
  • March 12, 2022 130-3pm EST Poetry Workshop, Georgia Highlands College, Cartersville, GA.
  • March 22, 2022 9am – 4pm EST
    Speaking of Fun: Drama in the L2 Classroom, TESOL International Convention PCI 4, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. Information to register online.
  • March 23-26, 2022. Faith, Family, and Fanaticism: Women Writing Religion. AWP Conference & Bookfair, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. More information online.
  • January 22, 2022 12-12:30pm EST (virtual)
    Theatre for Agency, Activism, & Acting Up with Language in TESOL Teacher Education. Practicing the Social: Entanglements of Art & Justice. University of Guelph, Ontario. More information online.September 11, 2021 8am EST (virtual).
  • Workshop: More than Fun and Games: Drama in the Online L2 Classroom(All Ages & Levels).  Free registration online.
  • September 15, 2021 11am EST (virtual). 
    Writing Translingual Poetry with Melisa (Misha) Cahnmann-Taylor. Taos Institute.
  • October 3, 2021 2-4pm EST at the Georgia Museum of Art. 90 Carlton Street Athens, Georgia 30620
    Creative Writing Workshop with Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor. More information online.
  • November 12, 2021 at Peachtree Ridge High School, Suwanee, Georgia.
    Hablemos! Jugando en Español con Drama e Improvisación.  (Playing in Spanish with Drama & Improvisation).
  • November 18, 2021 7pm EST at the Pratt Street Ale House, 206 W. Pratt Street, Baltimore, MD 21201
    “Where Songwriting and Poetry Meet: Performances by Ethnographic Poets and Songwriters”–a reading and performance of original poems and songs by ethnographers attending the 2021 AAA meeting. 
  • December 2021 at University of New Mexico, host: Dr. Kristina Jacobsen.
    Craft, Practice, & Possibility of Ethnographic Poetry and Songwriting.