Stanford Humanities Center
For the inaugural Writing the Life Process event, join us for a writing workshop with Professor Aracelis Girmay of the Stanford Department of English from 3–5 p.m. in the SHC Board Room, followed by a public poetry reading of Girmay's work at 6:30–7:30 p.m. in Levinthal Hall. Participants are encouraged to attend the workshop and return later in the evening for the poetry reading.
In this two-hour generative writing workshop, we will make experiments in reading, language, writing, and listening. Participants are asked to please bring a photocopy of a meaningful, mysterious, potent, resonant photo from your personal album or archive. Please make sure it is a photocopy because you will bend/manipulate the image.
About the Speaker
Aracelis Girmay is an editor and poet. She is the author of three poetry collections, most recently the black maria (BOA Editions, 2016) and is the editor of So We Can Know: Writers of Color on Pregnancy, Loss, Abortion, and Birth (Haymarket, 2023). In collaboration with book artist Valentina Améstica, she is the author of and was a flower, an essayistic ceremony on the imaginative strategies of her foremothers. Her newest full-length collection will be published next year.
When
Workshop: 3–5 PM
Poetry Reading: 6:30–7:30 PM
Location
Stanford Humanities Center
424 Santa Teresa Street
Board Room and Levinthal Hall
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