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Love Song Writing Workshops for Families

Friday at 6:30 PM EDT Part of One Book, One Philadelphia 2021 About this event All are invited to join a virtual session with singer-songwriter, teaching artist, and music producer Vince Anthony to learn to write your own love song. This intergenerational workshop invites children of all ages and their loved ones to write love

Making the World More Bearable: Reading & Conversation w/ Poet Danez Smith

Date and time Wed, May 19, 2021 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM EDT MAKING THE WORLD MORE BEARABLE: A reading and conversation with poet DANEZ SMITH. About this event The DePaul University LGBTQ Studies Program and the Department of English present—MAKING THE WORLD MORE BEARABLE: A reading and conversation with poet Danez Smith. This virtual event is

2021 National Poetry Month Celebration

As a part of our programming for National Poetry Month in April, our aim is to host a week’s worth of content geared toward writers and appreciators of haiku and other forms of poetry and spoken word. Featuring Dr. Henzbo’s Haiku Hullabaloo, a week-long celebration of haiku for members of Southern Fried Poetry, Inc. We

Black Poetry

Tuesday, April 13, 2021 at 7 PM EDT Please join the SDARJ on Tuesday, April 13, 2021 at 7:00 p.m. for our third annual Black Poetry Event This third poetry presentation incorporates some previous poets as well as new poets that are characterized under Historical Poems and Black Life into two subcategories: Black Love and

“Take the Mic” series

,2021 at 6:30 PM EDT – 8 PM EDT Hosted by Mahogany L. Browne and Jive Poetic, the Brooklyn Poetry Slam is a monthly poetry competition and Open Mic. The Brooklyn Poetry Slam is excited to announce the return of its monthly programming following the 2020 COVID-19 . Beginning on January 26, 2021, co-founders Mahogany

Off The Page: A Writer’s Open Mic – Online

Saturday, March 20, 2021 at 7:30 PM EDT – 10 PM EDT Are you looking for more spoken word? Need more short stories, monologues, lyrics, excerpts, poetry, etc. in your life? Join us for a welcoming writer’s open mic! Bring your original work to share all formats, genres, or bring something you’ve read that’s been

Unbraiding Legacy Poetry Workshop: Inspiring Black Women of History

Date And Time Sat, 20 March 2021 10:00 – 12:30 EDT A poetry-writing workshop for women & girls reflecting on inspiring Black women of history, led by the poets of ::nana:: collective. About this Event A poetry-writing workshop for women & girls reflecting on inspiring Black women who have impacted our lives or changed the

We Suffer to Inspire

Date And Time Thu, March 4, 2021 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM EST We Suffer to Inspire About this Event This interactive arts workshop is intended for youth, aged 13 to 29. The session consists of poetry, performances and interactive arts, encouraging youth to create. Join Randell Adjei, entrepreneur, speaker and spoken word practitioner, who

Power, Protest and Poetry: The Bristol Edition

Date And Time Thu, 8 April 2021 14:00 – 15:15 EDT A panel discussion examining Bristol through the lens of Politics, Power & Protest with international poet Muneera Pilgrim & special guests. About this Event Bristol Libraries and Words of Colour invite you to explore some of the most disruptive novels written in the English

Power, Protest and Poetry: Workshop 2 – Protest & Power in Prose and Poems

Date And Time Thu, 11 March 2021 14:00 – 15:30 EST A series of workshops seeking to examine Bristol through the lens of Politics, Power, Protest, and creative writing About this Event Bristol Libraries and Words of Colour invite you to explore some of the most disruptive novels written in the English Language, and apply