Please join the Center for Afrofuturist Studies' June resident Jalynn Harris for a youth workshop on personae poetry!
open to bipoc teenagers, middle & high schoolers
15 participants maximum
register here
About the workshop:
Beyonce has Sasha Fierce. Megan the Stallion has Tina Snow. But do you have an alter ego? In this workshop, participants will tap into their personal power through developing a personae.
By interrogating personae and environmental poems from works including Douglas Kearney’s “Black Automaton,” Louise Glück’s “the wild Iris,” and Rita Dove’s “Thomas and Beulah,” participants will activate an internal eye that transforms into a poetic “I” that uses the senses to craft sharp and resonating personae poems.
Jalynn Harris is a poet, educator, editor, and press founder from Baltimore, MD. She founded SoftSavagePress for the sole purpose of promoting visual and literary works by Black people. She has published a chapbook titled Exit Thru the Afro and her work has been featured in various anthologies, journals and digital publications.
