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Alt Dialogue is a companion series to Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, an open-access, peer-reviewed journal focused on the intersection of popular culture and pedagogy. Alt Dialogue includes Musings, reviews, poetry, and other related content.

Banned: Three Poems by Melissa Fite Johnson

Melissa Fite Johnson
Bishop Seabury Academy
Lawrence, Kansas, USA
melissafitejohnson@gmail.com

Author Bio

Melissa Fite Johnson is the author of three full-length collections, most recently Midlife Abecedarian (Riot in Your Throat, 2024). Her poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Pleiades, HAD, Whale Road Review, SWWIM, and elsewhere. Melissa, a high school English teacher, is a poetry editor for The Weight, a journal for high school students, and Porcupine Lit, a journal by and for teachers. She and her husband live with their dogs in Lawrence, KS, where she co-hosts the Volta reading series at the Replay Lounge.

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Kevin Rabas
Emporia State University
Emporia, Kansas, USA
krabas@emporia.edu

Author Bio

Past Poet Laureate of Kansas (2017-2019) Kevin Rabas teaches at Emporia State University. He is a seventh generation Kansan. His several books include Lisa’s Flying Electric Piano, a Kansas Notable Book and Nelson Poetry Book Award winner. He is the recipient of the Emporia State President’s and Liberal Arts & Sciences Awards for Research and Creativity, and he is the winner of the Langston Hughes Award for Poetry. His plays and films have shown across the Midwest and on both coasts.

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