Writing from the Inside Out: Holding a Conversation with Your Emotions

Poetry has the power to capture the chaos of emotions inside of us and create something beautiful. In this generative workshop attendees will be guided through exercises to help identify their primary emotions, core memories, and relationship with recurring feelings. With this knowledge & thought provoking prompts, attendees will have the opportunity to write pieces that hold honest and deep conversations with their own emotions.

Instructor

Caleb “The Negro Artist” Rainey is an author, performer, and event producer. He has published two books, Look, Black Boy and Heart Notes, released two albums, produced a short film with the Brucemore titled Willing to Grow, and starred in an award winning documentary titled The Negro Artist. In 2024 he was the recipient of the Iowa Author Award for Poetry. He is the winner of several slams across the United States, placed 7th in the 2023 UNESCO Slam-0-Vision global poetry slam, and is curating a community of spoken word poets in the Midwest through his high school program, IC Speaks, the adult-slam team, io-what, the recurring open mic, House of Words, and the two-day festival, Mic Check Poetry Fest.