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Thursday, January 2, 2020 Poetreeing Timelines: 3b: Past Workshops (Unseen Archive), 4: Christina Vega-Westhoff Workshops & Events

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Poetreeing

In this workshop we’ll turn our attention to trees in Buffalo, focusing on the interaction among them and with humans and other species. Engaging all of our senses, and considering the mythology surrounding particular trees and the call for planting and tending, we’ll write poems in search of new modes of communication.

Where:
Online Workshop

When:
Tuesday, May 5, 2020 @ 4:30 p.m.–6:00 p.m.

To register –  email Writing Center Coordinator, Robin Jordan at rjordan@justbuffalo.org.
This workshop is FREE, aimed at young students aged 12–18, and limited to 8 participants.

Christina Vega-WesthoffAbout the Teaching Artist

Christina Vega-Westhoff is a poet, translator, and aerialist. She is the author of Suelo Tide Cement, winner of the 2017 Nightboat Prize for Poetry. Vega-Westhoff also works as a teaching artist with the Geneseo Migrant Center and as a movement instructor with The Bird’s Nest Circus Arts. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. She holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Arizona and a BA in English and Latin American Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She choreographs and performs interdisciplinary works independently and for festivals and theatre, dance, and circus companies.
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