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.
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Crossing Generational Lines
Watch Here: Crossing Generational & Racial Lines This panel presents two generations of collaborations between African American and Asian American male literary artists. The intersections between these four artists explore how poetry and literary culture can form new relationships and understandings and new forms of dialogue between their respective communities. This panel will discuss what...
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Financial Trauma in Communities of Color
Virtual EventIn this More Than a Single Story conversation, arts activist Tess Montgomery will explore the intersections between financial independence and historical trauma on people of color and how it affects them in their daily lives as parents, as children of parents who have struggled financially, and as workers and artists today during the pandemic. Featuring...
Writing Workshop: The Cost of Living
Virtual EventWhether 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...
Writing Workshop: Won’t You Celebrate With Me?
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...
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In the Eye of the Beholder
Virtual EventIn Toni Morrison’s first novel “The Bluest Eye,” her character Pecola Breedlove faces unspeakable troubles in her young life and believes her problems will go away if only she had blue eyes. For years, women of color have been writing about how American beauty standards affect them, and for years, the beauty industry has been...
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Writing Workshop: Noticing the Field of Purple: Examining Beauty Through Black American Writing and Music
Virtual EventIn 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...
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Writing Workshop: Writing Life “Recipes”
Virtual EventIn 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...
Embracing Our Roots
Black Table Arts 3737 Minnehaha Ave, Minneapolis, MNA Partnership with More Than a Single Story, Black Table Arts, and In Black Ink Second Friday of the month from Sept. 21-Feb. 22 unless otherwise stated. 6:00-7:30 p.m. The program will be hybrid – you can join in person at Black Table Arts or if you prefer, you can participate virtually on Zoom or...
The Suitcases We Carry: An Afternoon With Haitian Women Writers
Virtual EventIn this More Than a Single Story conversation, we will engage with Haitian authors Beaudelaine Pierre, Gabrielle Civil, Valerie Deus, Marie Cerat and Jaira Placide on the themes in Pierre’s new book “You May Have the Suitcase Now,” a collection of essays that explores home and exile, and all that we carry with us in...