Join us on Saturday, October 30, 2021 from 1:00pm – 2:30pm Central for a generative workshop with featured poet Danielle Badra.
Contrapuntal Workshop: Creating Resistance via Collaboration and Conversation
Writing poetry can be a very isolated process. Oftentimes I find myself alone in my office, blasting some orchestral Arabic music, trying with all my might to ignore anything else that exists in the world outside of this moment, hyperfocusing on a specific angle into or out of a poem.
What if, despite being isolated, there were other voices present while you write? What if you were collaborating with someone, or creating a conversation between likeminded or dislikeminded folks? How would your poetry change or the process of writing change for you if you were writing in response to or alongside another voice? And how does this conversational form help generate a tone of political resistance? Is it revolutionary to collaborate? Is it revolutionary to break down barriers? How can writing alone become an act of speaking together against political oppression?.
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Recommended for participants 16 years and above.
The reading will take place virtually via Zoom with Zoom auto captions, and an ASL interpreter will be present. CART service will also be provided. Access copies of all poems will be provided via Google Docs.
Register for the virtual workshop by clicking on the “Registration” button on the Eventbrite page, donating any amount you can, and entering the required fields. You will receive an email with the Zoom information.
Suggested donation of $5.
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FEATURED READER:
Danielle Badra received her MFA in Poetry from George Mason University (2017). Her poems have appeared in Guesthouse(forthcoming), BAHR, Mizna, Cincinnati Review, Duende, The Greensboro Review, Bad Pony, Rabbit Catastrophe Press, Split This Rock, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, and elsewhere. Dialogue with the Dead(Finishing Line Press, 2015) is her first chapbook, a collection of contrapuntal poems in dialogue with her deceased sister. Her manuscript, Like We Still Speak, was selected by Fady Joudah and Hayan Charara as the winner of the 2021 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize and is forthcoming through the University of Arkansas Press fall 2021.