Katelyn Rivas

Katelyn Rivas is a warrior poet, community organizer, teaching artist, researcher, restorative arts practitioner and freedom dreamer living in Detroit, MI. She has been published in Tayo Literary Magazine, Poets Against Hate Anthology, The Primal School Blog, The Mudroom Blog, The Offbeat, The Lightkeeper, Controlled Burn and Take A Stand: Art Against Hate Anthology. Additionally she has received residencies at Stone Street Artists Co-op, The Forge and Halleck House.She is the founder of The Free Black Woman’s Library-Detroit, a black feminist mobile library that houses a trading and borrowing library and biblio installation featuring literature written by black women and femmes. As a scholar in black feminism, Katelyn has appeared on panels and given lectures at local universities about the need for community arts and radical self-care for black women.

All of My Poems Hold Each Other Like Sisters: An Interview with Christiana Castillo

Katelyn Rivas

Christiana Castillo’s debut poetry collection, Crushed Marigold, is an invitation to create meaning within self, cultural memory and spiritual lineage. It is a poem that has been molded and remolded again to shape something new that still carries old, sacred truth and beauty. Christiana uses radical imagination to call on her abuela’s matriarchal wisdom to conjure poems […]

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