Poetics of Ingat Led By Michelle Penaloza

Saturdays, Novemeber 5th & 12th, 2022 | 12:00 PM ET - 3:00 PM ET

Tuition | $100.00

Capacity: 20 Storytellers

"Ingat" in Tagalog means "care" and “carefulness.” How can we engage with the creation of intentional care within our poetics? The concept, Poetics of Ingat, is named by Filipinx poet and writer, Rachelle Cruz, and is the seed to this generative writing workshop where we will consider community- and self-care within the context of poetic forms—primarily the epistle, or letter poem, and the elegy.

About the Faculty: Michelle Peñaloza is the author of Former Possessions of the Spanish Empire, winner of the 2018 Hillary Gravendyk National Poetry Prize (Inlandia Books, 2019). She is also the author of two chapbooks, landscape/heartbreak (Two Sylvias, 2015), and Last Night I Dreamt of Volcanoes(Organic Weapon Arts, 2015). A Kundiman fellow, Michelle has also received support from Lemon Tree House, Caldera, 4Culture, Literary Arts, VONA/Voices, and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, among others. The proud daughter of Filipino immigrants, Michelle was born in the suburbs of Detroit, MI and raised in Nashville, TN. She now lives in rural Northern California.

Partial and full scholarships are available. Email scholarship inquiries to Info@RootsWoundsWords.org. Explicitly state the scholarship (partial or full) you’re interested in.

Closed captioning is provided. Like all RWW offerings, this space is for Black, Indigenous, Latinx/e, Asian, and other Storytellers of Color only. BIPOC Storytellers are centered here, exclusively.