Workshops
UpcomingNorthern California Writers Festival
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Past
Green Mountain Writers Conference
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Inprint Houston
Houston, Texas | April 2018
Are you just reading the news, or are you engaging with it? Join the creators of the world's only newspaper written by poets, Poets Reading the News, in a poetry lab at Houston's Inprint that combines performance, discussion, and writing exercises to explore the power of poetry to process and understand current events.
At no other time has poetry been so vital to American life. As poets respond to the headlines, poetry is experiencing a renaissance. Poets are shaping important national conversations, from gun violence to natural disasters, racism to sexual assault, by reporting first-hand and in verse. It is in conversation with these emergent issues that poetry is now achieving its greatest cultural influence in recent history. A new kind of writer has been born: the poet-journalist, a writer that interacts with headlines and transcends them. At Inprint, Houston's premier literary arts organization, Poets Reading the News founders Elle Aviv Newton and Jenna Spagnolo will share strategies that welcome writers into the act of documenting and witnessing rapidly-shifting political and cultural landscapes through the art of poetry. Participants at this poetry lab will have the opportunity to share their writing and should be prepared to get creative and inspired! |
Create Against Complicity
Oakland, California | August 2017
The most looked-up word of 2017 was complicit. And it's easy to see why. Everywhere we look, complicity is getting long-overdue recognition for its role in our culture's most dangerous power structures. We've always known complicity exists somewhere at the intersection of passivity, fear and control, and that its characteristics are generational, cultural and learned. But for what feels like the first time in journalistic history, complicity is being identified seriously in name and action by our mainstream media. Why has it taken so long for it to reach the shores of our headlines? How do we keep this conversation alive? And how do we identify complicity and create a culture without it? In this community workshop, join Poets Reading the News in exploring the #MeToo movement through a blackout poetry workshop, community discourse and empowering artistic practice. |