Join Interfaces for Faylita’s workshop titled “The Climax: How sensuality, incarceration, and artistry are all impacted by the global climate crisis”. A zoom link will be posted on social media @atx_interfaces.
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP: This will be a craft talk/generative poetry workshop facilitated by Faylita. Bring a willingness to write and poems that are ready to be molded into new gems.
ABOUT FAYLITA: Faylita Hicks (she/her/they)’s debut collection, HoodWitch (Acre Books, 2019), has been named a finalist for the 2020 Lambda Literary Award, and work included has won Best of Net and nominations for the Pushcart Prize. Hicks was a finalist for the PEN America Writing for Justice Fellowship (2018), and Palette Poetry Spotlight Award (2019). Hicks is the recipient of fellowships from Right of Return USA (2020), Lambda Literary (2019), and Jack Jones Literary Arts (2019). Their poems and essays are published or forthcoming in Poetry Magazine, Longreads, Adroit Journal, Barrelhouse, the Rumpus, the Cincinnati Review, Tahoma Literary Review, Prairie Schooner, SLATE Magazine, Huffington Post, Texas Observer, and others. Hicks (she/her/they) is the Editor-in-Chief of Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review.
2020/05/30 - 2020/05/30
zoom
Zoom is accessible via phone, tablet, or laptop/computer. You may have to make a free account. Unfortunately, zoom does not allow for closed captions, but it does allow for screen-sharing so that participants can actively participate in the workshop.