SERIES OF RIDICULOUSLY AWESOME WORKSHOPS
Perfect for all writers & great extracurricular for college apps!
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Emotional Historians with Jon Sands
December 15, 2020 7:00-9:00pm on Zoom
About the workshop. In the world of people, celebration is often laced with melancholy, joy is a border that surrounds sorrow, and fear is usually one doorbell away from bravery. So, how the fork can we construct poems that acknowledge a complicated and dynamic world? How do we avoid writing that transforms us into caricatures? How do we convey what it feels like to be us, alive at the onset of a new millennium? If the job of an artist is that of an emotional historian, then we must create poems that are as multi-dimensional and layered as the people who write them. We must ask ourselves not whether this is a great poem, but rather, is this today’s poem?
Jon Sands is a winner of the 2018 National Poetry Series, selected for his second book, It’s Not Magic (Beacon Press, 2019). He hosts an IG Live Interview Series called Ps & Qs. You can follow him at @iAmJonSands. His work has been featured in the New York Times, as well as anthologized in The Best American Poetry. He teaches at Brooklyn College, Urban Word NYC, and for over a decade has facilitated a weekly writing workshop for adults at Baily House, an HIV/AIDS service center in East Harlem. He tours extensively as a poet, but lives in Brooklyn.
It’s Your Poem, You Can Cry If You Want To! with Roya Marsh
December 22, 2020 7:00-9:00pm on Zoom
About the workshop. Writing with Vulnerability is a generative writing workshop series that uses poetry as a way to take risks and challenge one’s self to be courageous and brave. This workshop is heavily based on our respective emotional and historical experiences. It is suitable for all writing levels.
Bronx, New York native, Roya Marsh, is a nationally ranked poet/performer/educator/activist. She is the Poet in Residence with Urban Word NYC and works feverishly toward LGBTQIA justice and dismantling white supremacy. Roya’s work has been featured in Poetry Magazine, Flypaper Magazine, Frontier Poetry, Nylon Magazine, the Village Voice, Huffington Post, Blavity, The Root, Button Poetry, Def Jam’s All Def Digital, Lexus Verses and Flow, NBC, BET and the Breakbeat Poets Black Girl Magic Anthology (Haymarket 2018). @ChampagnePoet
Chasing the Image with José Olivarez
December 29, 2020 7:00-9:00pm on Zoom
About the workshop. What happens when we leave the familiar in search of the new? In this workshop, we will stumble and sometimes glide our way towards discoveries in our poetry. How? By chasing our images and metaphors towards unknown interiors. Poems by Natalie Diaz, Ada LimĂłn, and Aracelis Girmay will guide us.
José Olivarez is the son of Mexican immigrants. His debut book of poems, Citizen Illegal (Haymarket Books), was a finalist for the PEN/ Jean Stein Award and a winner of the 2018 Chicago Review of Books Poetry Prize. It was named a top book of 2018 by The Adroit Journal, NPR, and the New York Public Library. Along with Felicia Chavez and Willie Perdomo, he is co-editing the forthcoming anthology, The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNEXT. In 2018, he was awarded the first annual Author and Artist in Justice Award from the Phillips Brooks House Association and named a Debut Poet of 2018 by Poets & Writers. In 2019, he was awarded a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. @_joseolivarez