Monica Macansantos
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  • Francis C. Macansantos: In Memoriam
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Monica Macansantos

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"A shared stillness" published in colorado review, spring 2021

3/9/2021

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An essay I wrote during this pandemic about my journey as a tango dancer in New Zealand, intergenerational trauma, and the effects of colonialism on the body, "A Shared Stillness", appears in the Spring 2021 issue of Colorado Review, a literary journal I've admired and looked up to ever since I was an MFA student. It's been made available online, and print and digital copies of the journal can be ordered on their website. The entire issue can also be accessed via Project Muse if one has institutional library access. It was my wish, while writing this essay, to honor my paternal grandparents, Armando and Peregrina Macansantos, both tango dancers and survivors of war and trauma, as well as the city of Zamboanga, my father's hometown and the setting of much of this essay. Many thanks to Stephanie G'schwind for making my dream of appearing in Colorado Review come true. In her introduction to this issue, she writes:

In “A Shared Stillness,” Monica Macansantos considers the possibilities for connection and healing through tango, drawing on her family’s trauma and her own grief. 


Read the essay here. 
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The cultural contours of grief" at the 2021 awp conference

3/8/2021

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I had the honor of presenting on the AWP 2021 panel, "The Cultural Contours of Grief" with Frankie Rollins, Kimi Eisele, and Michelle Chikaonda. We spoke about how we wrote into our grief after devastating personal losses, how writing helped us gain our bearings in the midst of devastation, and how leaning into our grief allowed us to open our hearts up to the world. This was my first time to be on a panel at AWP and though I would've loved to meet these lovely women and our audience in person, I'm loving the flexibility of the online format. If registered, one can access our panel until April 2021. 
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