Charan P. Morris is a New York based poet/educator. A 2011-12 LAMBDA Literary Foundation Fellow, recipient of the Archie D. and Bertha H. Walker Scholarship for the Fine Arts Work Center 2013 Summer Program and participant in the 2014 Callaloo Workshop Retreat, her work has been published in Sinister Wisdom, Kweli Journal, InDigest Magazine,The Mom Egg, Stand Our Ground anthology and Liberator Magazine. Charan has performed as a feature poet for various audiences along the East Coast & Midwest. She has shared a stage with Gill Scott-Heron, The Last Poets, Staceyann Chin and others. Poetry takes its rightful place in her life–neck and neck with teaching. In addition to being a ten-year NYC public school educator, Charan has facilitated poetry workshops with diverse groups of writers including formerly incarcerated youth and graduate students at Columbia University. Her work fuels public dialogue around colorism, homophobia and the effects of war. Of course, sometimes she writes about being human.
With Poetic Theater Productions:
Featured Artist in Possibilities of Being: 2020 Pride Virtual Open Mic w/ NYTW & PTP
Featured Poet in Breaking Our Silence in Poetic License 2019: Resilience
Featured Poet in Breaking Our Silence: Reclaiming Our Voices in Poetic License 2018 Reclamation
Writer and Performer in Breaking Our Silence Showcase in Poetic License 2017: Resistance
Writer and Performer Representing Poetic Theater Productions at the New York City Poetry Festival
Writer and Performer in Breaking Our Silence: Showcase in Poetic License 2016
Writer and Performer in Breaking Our Silence in Poetic License 2015
Writer and Performer in Breaking Our Silence 2013 in Poetic License 2013
Poet in S.W.A.P. 2011: The Spoken Word Almanac Project in Poetic License 2012