Poetry of Place: Examining Delicate Spaces A Poetry Workshop

Please join Campo de Cahuenga Museum and Jessica Wilson Cárdenas for a poetry workshop on place and what “place” means to us as writers. This workshop is an examination of the world around you and your relationship to it. A place can be physical, it can be familiar, it can be a longing, it can also be a state of mind or a place that you hold on to. In this offering, we will dive into the places that have stayed with us through time with embodied guided writing exercises. We will delve into the following inquiries: where do we go to belong? Is it a space in our mind, our heart, or in our history? What are the symbols of your place? What brings you there? Let’s examine how these lay out upon the page; revealing our own roadmap of our(self).

About the Poet:

Jessica M. Wilson Cárdenas, an International Chicana Poet, born in East Los Angeles. She is a 3rd generation Beatnik, an MFA from Otis College of Art and Design. In 2009 she founded the Los Angeles Poet Society and began a network of literary events and open mics in LA County! She's a California Poets in the Schools Poet Teacher, and a lecturer at UCLA Extension. Jessica is an Artivist, a social justice publisher for Los Angeles Poet Society Press, amplifying QTBIPOC voices. She’s a DJ for Radio Ollin, (www.radioollin.org) Her books of poetry include: What Breathes, Raw Kit, Marie Morrison, Serious Longing, published by Swan World Press in Paris, France. She is a mother of two and a lover of one.

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