Black Lawrence Press Virtual Readings & Workshops

Check out the lineup for Black Lawrence Press virtual events! On the second Tuesday of of each month, we’re pleased to offer free single-session workshops. Then, join us on the last Tuesday of each month for readings and Q&A’s with our fabulous authors. Registration on Zoom is required for attendance. Can’t make it? Catch up on past events with captioned readings on our YouTube Channel.

 

MARCH READING

Black Women, Embodiment, and Healing: An Exploration of Care Through Poetry

Bettina Judd, ree botts, Sheila Smith McKoy, Adrienne Danyelle Oliver, Asantewaa Boykin, and Jeneé Darden

Tuesday, 3/17 @ 4 PM ET. Zoom.

We are honored to invite you to a reading featuring Black Lawrence Press poets. A panel, moderated by reelaviolette botts-ward will follow. With an emphasis on Blackness, womanhood, girlhood, and healing, this panel will offer a chance for the poets to share about their creative processes and how they develop bodies of work that grapple with personal and ancestral identities.

APRIL WORKSHOP

Cynthia Marie Hoffman – Make It Strange: The Prose Poem as Lyric Memoir
Tuesday, 4/9 @ 8PM ET

MAY WORKSHOP

Robbie Gamble – Poems as Pilgrims: A Workshop on Submissions
Tuesday, 5/14 @ 8PM ET

JUNE WORKSHOP

Carol Guess – Choregraphing Collaboration
Tuesday, 6/11 @ 8PM ET

AUGUST WORKSHOP

Melissa Llanes Brownlee – Small but Mighty: Exploring and Writing Micros and Flash Under 400 Words
Tuesday, 8/13 @ 8PM ET

SEPTEMBER WORKSHOP

Sarah Giragosian – Assembling the Poetry Manuscript: Strategies for Envisioning and Organizing Your Poems
Tuesday, 9/10 @ 8PM ET

OCTOBER WORKSHOP

Paula Carter – From the Personal to the Universal: How to Make Meaning from Our Experiences
Tuesday, 10/8 @ 8PM ET

NOVEMBER WORKSHOP

Alyse Bensel – Imagined Futures, Remembered Pasts: Poems that Face Climate Crises
Tuesday, 11/12 @ 8PM ET

DECEMBER WORKSHOP

Allison Joseph – One Inspiration, Three Forms, Three Poems
Tuesday, 12/10 @ 8PM ET