In Person at Beyond Baroque

Poetry & The Archive: Creating Poetry from Photographs is a generative workshop on the use of photographs from historical (and personal) archives to create poetry. Participants will generate new work through a series of prompts and be invited to use their own photographs to create new (or revise existing) poems.

This workshop is drawn from previous archive-related workshops the author has facilitated, her personal work using archives for two poetry collections-in-progress and forthcoming chapbook (Akashic Books/Africa Poetry Book Fund, 2027) and research into the use and power of photography in telling a story. Example poets to be discussed in workshop include Patricia Smith, Caleb Femi, Gordon Parks, and photographs from Russell Lee, US government archives, and others.