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Selected Interviews & Recent Press

College of Education Faculty Interview, August 2024

Interview for Meigs Distinguished Professor Award April 2024.

An LLED Conversation on Israel-Palestine, with Alaa Hedeeb from the West Bank. March 18, 2024

Featured “Winter Poet” in the Georgia Poetry in the Parks Program 2023

“Writing the Not-Me: Dramatic Monologues and Persona Poems” >> Featured Poetry Talk with the Eastern Shore Writers Assocation. February 9, 2023

COVID-19 Grant to increase vaccine confidence through the arts, February 1, 2022 TikTok project launch. #mishawhaddyawisha & #bestshotuga

Teaching English: How Supporting Multilingual Students is Getting Easier with ChatGPT >> Bam Radio Network

Want to have fun in the classroom? Try learning Games >> Education Week

Sample Improv Games to Play with Students >> Misha’s YouTube Channel

Poetry is a form of research >> Napkin Poetry Review

A Poet, a professor, and an expert in ethnographic poetry >> WRUU Radio Savannah

On establishing an Athens Poet Laureateship >> UGA College of Education

On teaching poetry in the college of education >> UGA Graduate School Magazine

UGA online professor releases new poetry book >> UGA Online

Fulbright Scholar Ambassador >> Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program

The anthropology/poetry nexus >> Interview with Alma Gottlieb

Athens school district leads state with religious tolerance policy >> Atlanta Jewish Times

Working to improve literacy in Mexico >> University of Arizona News

Selected Poems & Translations online

Poems by Nianxi Chen, Translated by Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor & Kuo Zhang have appeared in Tupelo Quarterly, Rattle, Plume, Pedestal, ANMLY and Poetry Expo 24: Versopolis. Forthcoming in Southern Humanities Review (April 2024), Hayden’s Ferry Review (June 2024) and Ruth Stone Magazine. Chen’s life and work were recently featured in the New York Times.

“As Friends Begin Second Marriages I Admire the Can Opener” >> Bitter Southerner (accepted, forthcoming! Yay!)

“Ghazal at the End” >> Rattle Magazine, Ghazal Special Issue (accepted, forthcoming! Yay!)

“Stick with that Kind of Wreckage” >> Hawaii Pacific Review

“Eighteen Ways of Looking at Property” >> Lilith (selected by Alicia Ostriker, 2022)

“US and Israeli Jews are bound” >> & “Sanctuary, Pora’s Rap” Poetica Magazine.

“Home Isolation, Day 42” >> Mom Egg Review

“Gezundheit” >> Vox Populi

“Museum Says 75% of All American Comedians Were Jews in 1975” >> Anthropocene

“After Reading a Letter from the Addict” >>Calyx

“Am I Really That Jewish?” >> Poet Lore Magazine, May 2020

Two poems >> Rag Queen

“The Artists’ sacrifice” >> SWWIM

6 poems in translation >> Altazor

2 poems in translation >> América Invertida

4 poems >> James Dickey Review, 2019/2020

4 poems >> Nine Mile Magazine 2019

“Morning after we rescue” >> New Criterion

3 poems >> Sleet Magazine, 2019

“We’re Always in a Watershed” >> Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review

“Nouning, March 2020” >> District Lit Magazine

Selected Essays & Articles online

“Anthropology at the edge of words: Where poetry and anthropology meet” >> Anthropology & Humanism

“Translingual Public Pedagogy, Precarity, and Inquiry.” >> The Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

“Pushing back against push-in: ESOL teacher resistance and the complexities of co-teaching” >> TESOL Journal

“No Child Left With Crayons: The Imperative of Arts-Based Education and Research With Language “Minority” and Other Minoritized Communities” >> Review of Research in Education

“’Searching For An Entrance’ And Finding A Two-Way Door: Using Poetry to Create East-West Contact Zones in TESOL Teacher Education” >> International Journal of Education & the Arts

“’I’m Not Talking to You’ ‘You Don’t Have to!’ Trans/scripting the Bland-Encinia Case” >> Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed Journal

“What’s Fair and Unfair” >> Eckleburg Review

“Ethnographic Poetry and the Leaping Bilingual Mind” >> Savage Minds

“Art-Informed Pedagogies in the Preparation of Teachers in the United States” >> Oxford Research Encyclopedias

Regularly appears on Wordland radio program with poems.

Recorded poetry readings: Misha’s PoetryCast & Seat in the Shade Poetry series (example reading, “Mother Less, Mother More“)