Georgia A. Popoff
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Georgia A. Popoff

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Georgia A. Popoff, of Syracuse, NY, is a “community poet,” expressed as performance poet, educator, editor, and spoken word producer. As a performer, she has toured both the west and east coasts extensively, coupling these efforts with opportunities to teach in schools and provide peer workshops in communities where she reads. Georgia is the managing editor for The Comstock Review (www.comstockreview.org) and has served as a Comstock Review editor for nearly 17 years. In the mid-90s, she was poetry editor for Central New York Environment for 5 years. She competed in the 1994 and 1995 National Poetry Slams and was an emcee in the 1998 national slam. Poems have appeared in numerous journals, including Asheville Poetry Review, Dharma Connection, Light of Consciousness, Midwest Poetry Review, Poetpourri, Red Brick Review, and Salt Hill Journal, among others. Her work has been included in the anthologies The Waist is a Terrible Thing to Mind: A Wake Up Call (Breakthrough Press, 2000); Poetry Slam: The Competitive Art of Performance Poetry (Manic D Press, 2000); 2001 Di-Verse-City: Poets of the Austin International Poetry Festival; and the Syracuse Cultural Workers’ nationally noted Women Artists Datebook in 1998, 2000, and 2003. In 2007, Georgia won first place and honorable mention Central New York chapter of the American Pen Women’s annual contest. Critical writings have been published in the New York Foundation for the Arts Chalkboard and the Teaching Artist Journal. She also maintains a blog of her experiences as poet and educator (http://gappoet.blogspot.com). Georgia is author of two books: Coaxing Nectar from Longing, (Hale Mary Press, 1997) and The Doom Weaver, (Main Street Rag Publications, 2008); one chapbook, The Greatest Hits (Pudding House Publications, 2003); and Teachers & Writers Collaborative released Our Difficult Sunlight: A Guide to Poetry, Literacy, and Social Justice in Classrooms and Community, a collaborative book co-authored with Quraysh Ali Lansana, of Chicago State University, in 2011. Additionally, she contributed to Wingbeats, an anthology of writing exercises for poets published in summer 2011 by Dos Gatos Press. As a teaching artist, she has presented workshops at poetry festivals, in schools, afterschool programs, adult education centers, community centers, women’s shelters, day camp, juvenile detention facilities, museums, and libraries, teacher’s in-services. Georgia has been a coach for the NAACP ACT-SO program for African American teens since 1994. Georgia is a member of the teaching staff of the Downtown Writers Center, the Syracuse chapter of the YMCA national Writers Voice program. Within the field of arts in education, Georgia served as a member of the Board of Directors for the Association of Teaching Artists (www.teachingartists.com) for 8 years and for 5 years as the Central New York Program Director for Partners for Arts Education, an funding and support agency for arts-in-education programs for teaching artists, educators, and cultural organizations. She is currently Writer-in-Residence in several New York State school districts, a part-time instructor in the Rene Crowne Honors Program at Syracuse University, and has been a guest lecturer at colleges, universities, and many professional conferences.
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