Workshop For Teens: Poetry and Justice

This workshop explores how to write poetry rooted in activism that is persuasive rather than alienating. Effective political poetry requires more than an opinionated stance; thoughtfulness, accuracy, and authenticity are also necessary to win over readers. To understand this balance, we will study overtly political work such as Lucille Clifton and Danez Smith alongside more gentle poems of social change by Ross Gay and Joy Harjo in order to generate our own poems of justice. Sponsored by Hathaway Brown.

‍

Presenters

Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello

‍

Genre

Poetry 

‍

Register for this free event here