In this generative poetry craft class exclusively for transracial adoptees, we will explore the power of taking ownership over your own story. Questions around belonging, familial history, and erasure are built into the adoptee experience. With poets such as Sun Yung Shin, Lee Herrick, Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello, and Jennifer Kwon Dobbs acting as guiding lights, we will consider these questions through craft exercises that focus on found text/erasure, collaboration, questions, and direct address. We will bring all of the pieces together at the end of the class as we write self-portrait poems that will draw from the discoveries we made in our series of exercises.

This is a 1-day craft class (3 hours long) on Tuesday, March 8th from 6:00 PM–9:00 PM ET. This craft class is open to transracial adoptees. See the class page for more information!

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