11 May Stepping Into Your Light
JBWC is thrilled to present a new, digital publication: Stepping Into Your Light
23 Feb Trends, Fads, and Phases with Alison Bechdel: JBWC Guest Blog by Danny Merlino
JBWC Youth Ambassador Danny Merlino reflects on connections with the work of cartoonist & graphic novelist Alison Bechdel in this guest blog ahead of their JBWC workshop "Trends, Fads, and Phases: In Color!"
12 Feb Metamorphoses
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in Youth Writing Workshops
Meet Writing Center Youth Ambassador Sage Enderton. The first picture is from 2014, when she first started coming to the center. And here's Sage this past week, leading a poetry and collage workshop as a Teaching Artist! She's the first young writer to become a Teaching Artist and we couldn't be more proud of her. Watching her change from being too shy to share her work to realizing that "I have a voice and it's loud and it's powerful and I have a lot to say" has been an honor and a privilege. For the workshop, Sage explored the idea of collage in poetry and visual art. Participants wrote centos* and then created collages inspired by their poems. *From the Latin word for “patchwork," the cento (or collage poem) is a poetic form made up of lines from poems by other poets.Thank you for supporting the Just Buffalo Writing Center; this transformation wouldn't have been possible without you.