Michael Kearns spent ten years as the artist-in-residence at the Downtown Women’s Center in Skid Row and currently helms Writing Works at Housing Works in Los Angeles on a weekly basis. He is the creator and Artistic Director of QueerWise, a collective of GLBTQ writers who have gained a reputation as one of Los Angeles’s stalwarts in the world of spoken word performance. Read an interview with him about his workshops here on the Readings & Workshops blog at Poets & Writers. [Hat tip to EngAGE Founder and Executive Director Tim Carpenter for this link.]