& the joke goes, how many mothers does it take to change a light bulb? & the punch line falls silent because there is no mother here. now i am expected to change all the lights when they go out. i am five when father’s light goes out. & this is the first time my […]
Samantha Slupski
Samantha Slupski is a writer from Kansas City, Missouri. She competed at Texas Grand Slam and was a 2018 nationals team member; headlined the Melbourne, Australia, Spoken Word Poetry Festival in 2018; and is a Winter Tangerine Workshop alum. Her work centers around how a body survives trauma and aims to illuminate stories about mental health. When she is not writing, she teaches and supports artists with developmental disabilities at the nonprofit art studio Imagine That.