Telling and Retelling: Working with Inherited Stories with William Nu‘utupu Giles

Sunday, April 28th
2:00–4:30 pm ET

This workshop asks how a story shifts when it changes hands, looking at poetry that explores a single story from different vantage points. We will interrogate how institutional, commercial, academic, and family historians view and change the past through retelling. We will study poets who cross borders, or who have had borders imposed upon them. This would be a good workshop for anyone aware of the distance between ink on a historian’s ledger and migration stories told under moonlight.

eligibility:

This craft class is open to all writers of color. The non-refundable tuition fee is $50. This class will be held over Zoom. There are scholarship spots available, and the applications are open through Sunday, April 7th.

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FACULTY:

William Nu’utupu Giles (they/he) is an afakasi Samoan writer from O'ahu. They are a National Poetry Slam Champion and Kundiman Fellow. His work explores mental health issues emerging from modern colonization, how we change to chase diaspora, and the waters that connect us. Will's work has been featured by HBO, The National Parks Service, and NBC News. Will lives for the moment of firsts in a blooming poet’s eyes: the first line, first draft, and the first time someone opens their mouth and believes in the power of their own story.