Join us for Meeting No. 10 of the 2026-2027 workshop!

This week we’ll be exploring how poetry changes when it is written to be heard, and how oral storytelling traditions continue across diasporic communities. Through close reading and guided writing, we’ll explore the originators and contemporary oral poets.

📚 Mandatory readings: Hearing That Joe Arroyo Song at Ibiza Nightclub, 2008 by Elizabeth Acevedo Manhunt or Ode to First Kisses by Elizabeth Acevedo My Father is an Oyster by Clint Smith Place Matters by Clint Smith The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes Beatnik Poem
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Date: Saturday, March 13, 2027
Time: 1:00pm (Doors open at 12:45. Grace period ends at 1:15 — no late entry after that!)
Location:
RSVP below — spots are limited!