by Seema Reza | Sep 30, 2020 | Blog, Events
Registration required! Join us on September 30th at 5:00 pm EST for a writing workshop with Kansas Poet Laureate Emeritus Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg. Proceeds from this workshop will benefit Community Building Art Works, supporting our programs for Veterans, Service...
by Seema Reza | Sep 23, 2020 | Blog, Events
Yesenia Montilla will facilitate “Writing in the Time of the Apocalypse” for CBAW on 23 September 5:00-6:30pm. Yesenia Montilla is an Afro-Latina poet & a daughter of immigrants. Her poetry has appeared in Gulf Coast, Prairie Schooner, & others....
by Seema Reza | Sep 17, 2020 | Blog, Events
Register HERE for this workshop! Join CBAW and Cynthia Dewi Oka for a writing workshop to explore how our stories of ourselves can function as windows that open toward the Other(s) through the device of point of view and techniques like erasure, dislocation,...
by Seema Reza | Sep 11, 2020 | Blog
Six months ago we took our first workshop online. A week later, we realized that the tools of connection we had developed over our ten years in military healthcare settings needed to be shared. We opened our workshops up to everyone, regardless of military...
by Seema Reza | Aug 12, 2020 | Blog, Events
Jive Poetic is a writer, organizer, and educator based in Brooklyn, New York. He is the founder of Insurgent Poets Society, Carnival Slam: Cultural Exchange, and the co-founder of the Brooklyn Poetry Slam. When he is not on tour or hosting, he teaches performance...