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Striking Light from Ashes
by Charise M. Hoge
$14.99, paper
978-1-63534-256-7
2017
Charise Hoge is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College (BA), New York University (MA, Dance Movement Therapy), and University of Georgia (Master of Social Work). Her career has always interwoven expressive arts – writing, dance, movement – with healing. She has been a company member of PATH Dance Company, Baltimore; Room To Move, Atlanta; and Ancient Rhythms Dance, Washington, D.C. She has worked as a dance/movement therapist with psychiatric and prison populations, as a mental health counselor for the international expatriate community of Bangkok, Thailand, and as a coach on identity and relocation. Her yoga and dance programs over the past eighteen years have included classes for staff of the World Bank, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, the National Gallery of Art, and the National Zoo. As a writer, she co-authored A Portable Identity: A Woman’s Guide to Maintaining a Sense of Self While Moving Overseas, and contributed her story as a military spouse for the book Once a Warrior Always a Warrior. Charise continues to consult, teach, perform in collaboration with dance theatre choreographers of Washington, D.C., and is devoted to writing. Her poetry appears in Englyn Journal, David Lehman’s poetry column “Next Line, Please” of The American Scholar as well as the forthcoming book Next Line, Please (Cornell University Press), the graduate course “Arts and Healing” at Lesley University, and her poetry blog mixandmossspoetry.com.
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