Speak Your Truth: Baldwin & Lorde as Agents of Change Led By JP Howard

Saturday, April 9th, 2022 | 2 PM ET - 5 PM ET

Tuition | $50.00

Capacity: 20 Storytellers

In this generative workshop, James Baldwin and Audre Lorde’s transformative and inspirational words serve as agents of change to agitate, empower and inspire writers to make the personal political. In this generative workshop, storytellers will use excerpts of essays, poems, and video footage, where possible, of Baldwin and Lorde as creative prompts to produce passionate mini-personal essays or narrative, memoir-themed political poems.

About the Faculty: JP HOWARD (she/her/Diva) is an educator, literary activist, curator and community builder. Her debut poetry collection, SAY/MIRROR (The Operating System), was a Lambda Literary finalist. She is the author of bury your love poems here (Belladonna*) and co-editor of Sinister Wisdom Journal Black Lesbians--We Are the Revolution! JP’s chapbook Praise This Complicated Herstory: Legacy, Healing & Revolutionary Poems is forthcoming from Harlequin Creature. She has essays forthcoming in the anthologies, Teaching Black: The Craft of Teaching on Black Life and Literature (University of Pittsburgh Press) and Living and Sustaining a Creative Life: Writing (University of Chicago Press). JP was a featured author in Lambda Literary’s LGBTQ Writers in Schools program and is featured in Headmistress Press’s Lesbian Poet Trading Card Series. She has received fellowships/grants from Cave Canem, VONA, Lambda, and Brooklyn Arts Council. She curates Women Writers in Bloom Poetry Salon. Her poetry has appeared in The Slowdown podcast, Academy of American Poets, and Split this Rock, amongst others. JP is a general Poetry Editor for Women's Studies Quarterly and Editor-At-Large of Mom Egg Review VOX online.

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

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.