Exploring Home and Exile: Writing Cento Poems

Virtual Event

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...

Exploring Home, Exile and What We Carry: Writing Memoirs

Virtual Event

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...

Book Release: We Are Meant to Rise

November 23, 2021 is the official release date for More Than a Single Story's long-awaited anthology, We Are Meant to Rise. Edited by Carolyn Holbrook and David Mura, the collection...

Book Launch Event: We Are Meant to Rise

Next Chapter Booksellers 38 Snelling Ave S., St. Paul, MN, United States

Carolyn Holbrook and David Mura, editors, will be at Next Chapter Booksellers on Monday, November 29 at 6:00 p.m. for the launch of We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice...

In the Eye of the Beholder: An Intergenerational Conversation

Sun Ray Library 2105 Wilson Ave, St. Paul, MN, MN, United States

Join us for an In the Eye of the Beholder event at Sun Ray Library in St. Paul, on December 12, 2021. This event features Carolyn Holbrook, Najah Davis, Saymoukda...

Exploring Beauty with Cento Poems

Zoom

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...

History Revealed: We Are Meant to Rise

Zoom

History Revealed is a panel discussion of We Are Meant to Rise in the East Side Freedom Library and the Ramsey County Historical Society's new series “Making Minnesota” which will...

Embracing Our Roots

This event has been cancelled for the month of January. Please stay tuned for more information about February's Embracing Our Roots conversation with two Black writers.   Embracing Our Roots...