Friday, September 4, 2020 Letter-Writing Poems (Youth) Categories: Official JB Events Timelines: 3b: Past Workshops (Unseen Archive), 4: Christina Vega-Westhoff Workshops & Events
Together respond. Offer. Imagine response/respond imaginatively. Between the real and unreal, the sent and unsent, responded to and unanswered, how does the letter cross time and space—how might we? We’ll read letters from poets and poems written as letters: Diane di Prima, Audre Lorde, Brandon Shimoda, John Berger, Danez Smith, Emily Dickinson, Erica Hunt… Who will we write in conversation, how will our words embody correspondence, dance in this moment taking in surroundings, what will they stir? Writing to/from places, people, animals, feelings, ancestors, and more.
Where: Online Workshop
Date: Tuesday, October 6, 2020
Time: 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.
About 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. 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.