Natalie Talks Live with Author Cheryl Pallant

Our guest today, Cheryl Pallant, PhD, is an award winning author, poet, dancer, healer, and professor. She was born in New York City.  She has published several books of innovative poetry, nonfiction, and has been featured in several anthologies. Her background as a writer and dancer has led to frequently merging these disciplines.

While a literature student at Long Island University, she was introduced to the dance form, contact improvisation. This postmodern improvisational dance has had a strong influence upon her poetics. Thematic frames and syntax shift rhythmically in her poetry, moving from one context to another, the language much like the moves of a dancer. Her books demonstrate a kinetic poetics guided by an internal momentum that expands upon the possibilities of language and challenges the usual logical mode of reading. Another resulted from a furthering of her language play, a single poem morphed thirty-five times.

She was performance art critic for High Performance and dance critic for Style Weekly, a newspaper in Virginia. Ginseng Tango is her memoir about her time living in South Korea, learning tango, and undergoing a spiritual renewal. Consistent in her work is proprioceptive awareness, meditation, embodiment, consciousness, and language play.

BOOK(S)  Ecosomatics: Embodiment Practices for a World in Search of Healing - Jun 6, 2023

https://cherylpallant.com