Youth Workshop with Denice Frohman

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Open to teens aged 13-18. Registration is free but space is limited.

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

J. Wortham once wrote, “Embodiment is an act of resistance.” In this workshop we’ll write toward a more embodied space by drawing our attention to the everyday moments in our lives that can hold meaning. We’ll explore the work of contemporary poets like Aracelis Girmay, Ross Gay, and Li-Young Lee, and think through the following question: How can writing toward or from the body open up other portals of experience? By mining the mundane, we’ll root ourselves in the present and reconsider what these moments can hold. 

DENICE FROHMAN

Denice Frohman is a poet and performer from New York City. A Pew Fellow and Baldwin-Emerson Fellow, she’s received support from CantoMundo, Headlands Center for the Arts, the National Association of Latino Arts & Cultures and Millay Colony. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The BreakBeat Poets: LatiNext, Nepantla: An Anthology for Queer Poets of Color, ESPNW and elsewhere. A former Women of the World Poetry Slam Champion, she’s featured on hundreds of national and international stages from The Apollo to The White House. She lives in Philadelphia.