Content Tagged ‘social justice’

Macondo Writers Workshop

Exited to work with Dorothy Allison, who is leading the nonfiction/memoir workshop at upcoming Macondo Writers Workshop virtual edition! And ready to be inspired by the works of Macondista writer-activists.

“Naming the Nameless: A Writing Retreat for Marginalized Voices” 

“Naming the Nameless: A Writing Retreat for Marginalized Voices” 

A rare opportunity for beginning and experienced writers who love to write and create in community!  This tranquil 4-day 3-night …

The Poetry Magazine Podcast: Ashley M. Jones and JoAnn Balingit in Conversation

 

my filipino father’s
art was to christen each child
with a mother’s memory

 

from “Tanaga: Song Where Every …

Harvest: Poetry Writing Class (4 virtual meetings)

Class meets Wednesdays: October 6, October 13, October 20, October 27 from 5:00 to 6:30pm EDT. →REGISTER ←

 

In this four-week poetry class, we’ll ask ourselves, “What is a successful …

Harvest: Poetry Writing Class (Oct. 2021 virtual)

Harvest

In this four-week poetry class October 6-27, we’ll read and write poems to ask ourselves, What is a successful harvest? 

Register for (each) Wednesday evening 5:00 to 6:30 …

Practicing Poetry: Writing in Spring

Practicing Poetry: Writing into Spring April 7 – June 23    5:00-6:30pm eastern

 Free

       . . . from this yard I have been composing a great speech, that I …

Hatch some new poems in 2021! “Practicing Poetry” begins January 13, 2021 and runs for six online sessions through March 24th. We will write together on Wednesday nights 5:00-6:30 …

Celebrate the launch of Ink Knows No Borders: Poems of the Immigrant and Refugee Experience. This new collection of poems focuses on the experiences of first- and second-generation immigrants and …

I am so happy to have a poem in this beautiful anthology, Ink Knows No Borders: Poems of the Immigrant and Refugee Experience. I’m reading at the DC launch March 15! …

“we can’t build a wall. we can only spout pure water again and again and drown his lies.” –Eileen Myles

RESIST MUCH/OBEY LITTLE: Poems to the Resistance, Dispatch Editions 2017. 

“This anthology …

Join me, editors Joyce Brinkman and Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda, special keynote reader Coleman Barks and other contributors to this anthology for an exciting reading and discussion on the spirit of urban …