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,...
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 features works written by More Than a Single Story panelists and participants. Reserve your copy at a local bookstore and plan to pick it up...
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 from Minneapolis to the World. They will be joined for this hybrid event by contributors Kao Kalia Yang, Said Shaiye, Douglas Kearney, and Melissa Olson. To...
After the uprisings for George Floyd and Daunte Wright, sharing knowledge inter-generationally is more important than ever. Join us for monthly conversations where young arts leaders will join our elders and culture bearers in conversation about their histories of significant milestones in Minnesota’s Black literary history. On Wednesday, December 8, 2021, attorney Adebisi Wilson will...
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 Vongsay, Buranh Johnson, Nubia Esparza, and Isa Sanchez-Esparza. Register for this event at: https://forms.gle/4rYbFpY41T3ucJxB7
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...
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 explore the often untold stories, histories and experiences of the immigrant, African American and Indigenous communities that make up our most diverse county. Editors Carolyn...
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 is a conversation with Black writers. In the Spirit of Sankofa, this speaker series reaches back into the history of the Black literary arts in...
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...
The Soul Bone Literary Festival is hosting a reading of the anthology We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World, edited by Carolyn Holbrook and David Mura. This reading will feature Anika Fajardo, Ezekiel Joubert III, Mary Moore Easter, and Mona Susan Power. Carolyn Holbrook will introduce. REGISTER HERE. The...
