Part of The Poetry Society of New York's Weekly Virtual Workshop Series.

With poet Chekwube Danladi!

In this workshop, we will explore the potent possibilities of poetry as a vessel for writing toward resistance and liberation. We will encounter sample texts by poets who situate their work in social justice movements, and will draw upon their lessons to create our own poems of protest. In doing so, we will come to understand the vital role that poetry plays during social justice crises, affirming that in times of struggle, a poet's place is in the streets.

About the Instructor: Chekwube Danladi is the author of Semiotics (Georgia, 2020), winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, and, Take Me Back, included in the New Generation African Poets chapbook boxset. She has received support from Kimbilio Fiction, the Lambda Literary Foundation, Hedgebrook, the Vermont Studio Center, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, and elsewhere. Her visual work has been commissioned by the Center for Afrofuturist Studies (a program of PS1), Already Felt: Poetry in Revolt and Bounty, Langer over Dickie, and the Black Poetry Review. She is the 2022-25 Writer-in-Residence at Occidental College and lives in Los Angeles.

* *This workshop will take place on Zoom.**