Poems can be powerful magic. Are you looking for ways to begin or strengthen the stories you tell? In 2023 Elizabeth traveled to rural Ghana to give workshops in a boarding house to kids struggling with literacy. Using carefully selected prompts, we guided 16 students aged 9-17 to write about their origin and identity. In this session we’ll talk about the project, the potency of prompts, and read some of their poetry. There will be timed writing exercises and a copy of I Am From: Voices from the Mako House in Ghana is included with registration.
$50 suggested workshop fee
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Elizabeth S. Wolf has published 5 books of poetry, most recently A Collection of Partings (2022) and I am From: Voices from the Mako House in Ghana (2023). Her poetry appears in multiple journals and anthologies and has been nominated for several Pushcart Prizes. Her chapbook Did You Know? won the Rattle Chapbook Prize. Her project with Prisoner Express was featured in Rattle Summer 2022 and her work is included in an archive headed to space with Writers on the Moon.