Please send stories, poems, songs, dreams, rants,
doodles, drawings and other forms of truth to
caitlin.meissner@gmail.com

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Caits Meissner

Albany, New York raised, Brooklyn based Caitlin Meissner is a poet, performer, educator and graphic designer with a BFA from Pratt Institute. Using her background in visual art, anti-racism work, disability advocacy and youth empowerment, her poems are visually rich testaments to the complexities of the human spirit. As a performer, she has featured for the progressive literary collective louderArts; Opened for the acclaimed Page Meets Stage series (with Thomas Lux); Shared sets with musicians such as Immortal Technique, Grandmaster Caz, Boot Camp Clik and many others; And has performed on countless stages- from street corners to Columbia University, The Nuyorican Poets Café to Rikers Island, including a tour throughout the San Francisco Bay Area in September of 2008 .

Her poems have been published in the independently released HIS RIB and GOT POETRY 2007 anthologies, as well as in various literary journals. For two years Caitlin served as Project Coordinator of the successful all-woman Saturday Performance Series at The Lower Eastside Girls Club and currently holds residency teaching poetry to middle school students in New York City public schools through Urban Ats Partnership. Recently honored as the winner of the OneWorld Poetry Contest, Caitlin attended the 2008 inaugural Pan-African Literary Forum in Accra, Ghana, studying under Pulitzer Prize winner Yusef Komunyakaa and other luminaries from the literary African diaspora.

All in all, Her journey is to live, and help others live, as magically as possible.

Poems & music > http://www.myspace.com/caitlinmeissnerpoetry
Graphic Design > http://caitlindesigns.wordpress.com
Personal blog > http://king-poetic.livejournal.com