Our Response to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Outbreak

As a precaution to help limit the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) and care for our community, Just Buffalo Literary Center has postponed a number of events, and we will follow the guidance of Buffalo Public Schools in terms of Just Buffalo Writing Center programming.

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Rebus Poetry (Youth) Timelines: 3b: Past Workshops (Unseen Archive), 4: Julio Montalvo Valentín Workshops & Events

Rebus

Rebus writing has traditionally been used to teach reading and writing skills. Where a word is absent, we find an image that best conveys the purpose or need of such a word. Without knowing, we still use Rebus writing through our way of communicating via text messages and the use of emojis. This workshop examines a teaching technique that not only fills those gaps but also gives us an opportunity to evaluate our own writing and ability to read ourselves differently, whether through a screen or on the page.

Where: Online Workshop
Date: Tuesday, February 2, 2021
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.

ACCESSIBILITY NOTE:
Writers are welcome to participate with or without video and audio during any of our virtual sessions. If you have any questions/issues accessing any of these opportunities, please let us know and we will work with you to make sure you can participate.

Julio Montalvo Valentin

About the Teaching Artist

JULIO MONTALVO VALENTIN (they/his) is the author of three chapbooks, the latest being Those Who Pray to Rice (NightBallet Press, 2019), and is a member of Los Artistas del Barrio Buffalo (LADB). Julio was a guest editor for Mutata Re, Portrait, Coffin Bell Journal, Variety Pack, and co-founder of the late Cringe-Worthy Poets Collective. Their work has been published in Thimble Literary Magazine, Cavity, Bangor Literary Journal, and Aisthesis: The Interdisciplinary Honors Journal, and more. Their work has been anthologized in Boricua en la Luna: An Anthology of Puerto Rican Voices, A Flash of Dark, Mansion, My Next Heart: New Buffalo Poetry, and the Silkworm Anthology Volume 13. While pausing on their next project for the season, a poetry caravan, you can find them working to finish their Master’s degree in English Literature.