Judith Tannenbaum Teaching Artist Fellowship

Judith Tannenbaum was a Bay Area writer and teacher who was a national leader in the field of community arts. In addition to publishing numerous books of poetry, memoir, and creative writing curriculum, Judith worked passionately to train over one hundred teaching artists to work in community settings (prisons, libraries, schools) to encourage a writing practice for all. She was a proud supporter of Chapter 510.

In the foreword of Chapter 510’s 2019 anthology Black Joy: Black Boy Poems published by Nomadic Press, award-winning poet Tongo Eisen-Martin wrote: “It is our mandate as writers to synthesize craft from both the beauty and joy of investigation of the music or emotive math of language, synthesize the billion refracted patterns of logic and insight; with the objective of transforming mass culture into a revolutionary culture from which a resistance of global character can set things right. This is where the young Black writers of this book enter. A love and solidarity.”

Funding organization: Chapter 510