In Audre Lorde’s pivotal article, “Poetry is Not a Luxury”, poets are faced with an essential question: how will our work reveal the deep, ancient truths of our world and facilitate needed change?

This workshop invites participants to think well about how spoken word does this important work.

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Feedback from this workshop:

“I really appreciated the flexibility with which Gabe led the class. He was super open to hearing our thoughts and willing to change the direction or cut something out so we could spend time on what was exciting us. He was clearly very knowledgeable about spoken word and I loved how he brought in these little tidbits of knowledge to contextualize our discussions without his expertise sounding exclusive. I loved when he read his poetry - it was awesome!”