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Beyond Witness: Innovative Forms Toward Accountability - A Poetry Workshop With Sara Borjas
This exploratory and generative workshop will offer ways for poets to move beyond the role of witness, and become participants. Definitions of “poetry of witness” are shifting, and for many, have shifted, as poets seek to defy the inherent passivity of the term “witness.” Increasingly, poets are interrogating the safety afforded by privilege, time and distance, engaging legacies of trauma, including those they have inherited or been proxy to, in order to confront the past and their own participation. Sara will present ways to stretch and flex qualities of the sonnet and survey various innovative forms like graphs, parodies, mad libs, and quizzes. We will discuss and create innovative forms that require the reader’s engagement and excavate often-invisible layers of participation, eschewing language of witness in favor of a poetics of active accountability.
*A handout with exemplary poems and relative criticism will be sent 10 days before the workshop.
*One scholarship will be awarded to a QTPOC/BIPOC L.A.-residing individual who would like to join but does not have the means to do so. Please email us if interested at info@beyondbaroque.org
A Zoom link will be provided to all registered participants 24 hours before and on the day of the workshop.
Sara Borjas is a Xicanx pocha and a Fresno poet. Her debut collection of poetry, Heart Like a Window, Mouth Like a Cliff was published by Noemi Press in 2019 and received a 2020 American Book Award. Sara was named one of Poets & Writers 2019 Debut Poets and is a 2017 CantoMundo Fellow. She is the recipient of the 2015 Blue Mesa Poetry Prize judged by Carmen Giménez-Smith, and a Postgraduate Writers Conference Fellow, a Community of Writers at Squaw Fellow, and a MacDowell Colony Fellow. Her work can be found in Ploughshares, The Rumpus, Poem-a-Day by The Academy of American Poets, and The Offing, amongst others. She teaches in the creative writing department at UC Riverside and the UCR Palm Desert Low Residency MFA Program, but stays rooted in Fresno.
Find her @saraborhaz or at www.saraborjas.com.
Tickets: $60 - $75
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Date and Time
Saturday Oct 2, 2021
11:00 AM - 2:00 PM PDT
Saturday, October 2nd
11:00 am - 2:00 pm
Location
Virtual via Zoom
Fees/Admission
Tickets: $60 - $75
Purchase Here