Healing Through Poetry
In this supportive poetry workshop, learn how poetry can be used as a tool for healing through the use of language, symbols, moments, and visions.
In this supportive poetry workshop, learn how poetry can be used as a tool for healing through the use of language, symbols, moments, and visions.
Whether you write in poetry, prose, or not at all, we invite you to this workshop to process the literal and metaphorical costs of living as a Black Indigenous Person of Color. Using prompts and reading samples from other BIPOC writers for inspiration, we’ll explore the things our bodies and psyches have inherited as well...
This workshop invites you to come celebrate our creativity, goodness and resistance to the ways our class system has tried to kill us-and failed. Through reading and writing, we will center the stories of Indigenous people and people of color who are and have been poor and working class. Because all of us have been...
In this guided poetry writing session, we will question the power dynamics of beauty while exploring our own personal relationship to it. We will anchor our critical exploration of beauty in Black American literary traditions and music. From this framework, we will generate original poems that intentionally reflect on how we can assert and affirm...
In this workshop, we will use guided creative writing exercises to invent life “recipes” such as "How to Live a Life Worth Telling" or "How to Forgive Your Haters." The workshop is part conversation, part writing and part sharing. All levels of writing and life experience welcomed. Bring a notebook and pencil or laptop and...
In the Cento form, lines from different sources stand next to each other to create new narratives. This exercise encourages participants to focus closely on their favorite lines from various poems and helps them understand how the individual parts relate to the whole. In this workshop, we will work with multiple poems to create our...
How can writing help you reclaim life, forge new languages and build a brighter future after experiencing exile or separation from one’s home? How can self-awareness expand our writing and self in increasingly stressful sociopolitical contexts? In this workshop, we will answer these questions and examine the ordinary events of our lives – our location,...
In the Cento form, lines from different sources stand next to each other to create new narratives. Because this exercise forces participants to focus closely on their favorite lines from various poems, it helps them understand how the individual parts relate to the whole. In this workshop, we will work with multiple poems to create...
This workshop is about writing love letters to ourselves. We need healing. We invite people to acknowledge and show love and understanding to themselves. Saymoukda Duangphouxay Vongsay is a Lao writer. CNN’s “United Shades of America” host W. Kamau Bell called her work “revolutionary.” She's the author of the children's book WHEN EVERYTHING WAS...
| Virtual Writing Workshop | Everyone has a story to tell. But how can we tell captivating stories about real people? Whether you’re writing your own memoir or want to document a family history, you need to know what idea or message you want to convey to a reader. Once you’ve tackled the big...