Midwest Poetics Writing Workshop with Jamaica Baldwin

Posted May 30, 2023

Monday, June 26, 2023 from 6:00-8:00 PM

Poet, scholar, and educator Jamaica Baldwin will lead our next Midwest Poetics Writing Workshop, a two-hour intensive available online via ZOOM.

Listening To The Body

Her bars lie wet, open / and empty and she has made herself again / out of flesh out of dictionaries.

The above passage from Lucille Clifton’s poem, She Understands Me, highlights the complicated relationship between the body and language. In this generative workshop we will read and discuss a selection of sample poems that un-silence and make visible the human experience through the raw, captivating, ugly, useful, and beautifully imperfect thing that is the body. Writing prompts and exercises will rely on the following tools: breath, movement, memory, and observation. Come prepared to write!

ABOUT MIDWEST POETICS

Midwest Poetics is an opportunity for artists to hold space for writing, reading, and literature. This workshop series centers connection, conversation, collaboration, and communal learning to heal and ask more questions. We happily give the mic to Black and Indigenous vocalists, poets, writers, musicians, and performers of color to celebrate their craft and facilitate our workshops. Midwest Poetics is a Lit space where we will workshop new material in a peer-to-peer setting every other month and conclude with an end-of-year showcase in December 2023.

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Monday, June 26 from 6:00-8:00 PM

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ZOOM

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Hope-Lian Vinson

Hope-Lian Vinson is a Kansas City-based visual artist whose works recast elements of the built environment to explore internal narratives of history and identity. With a B.F.A in Painting, Art History, and a Social Practice Certificate from the Kansas City Art Institute, Hope-Lian works at the intersections of art and ecology by using locally-sourced clay and natural materials to reference place and geological processes. They have showcased works in MdW Atlas, SITE ONE, Sapien Gallery, and have recently returned from the Chop Wood Carry Water arts residency in the Driftless region of NW Illinois. They currently serve as the Marketing + Communications Manager at Charlotte Street, where they use their artistic background in community-organizing to provide critical support for Charlotte Street programs and initiatives.