Writers, WYA?! Join us for our first BGIAS: Black Girls Writers Room (DMV) event.

Explore generations of language in this free poetry workshop with award-winning poet María Fernanda, from DC, who invites participants to learn how to write a contrapuntal poem, a form blending two or more poems and read in multiple ways. Generative writing exercises will be inspired by excerpts of poems, in-library literary archives, and other sources. Participants will consider the many histories of a word, a name, a home, and so much more. This is for first-time writers and poetry enthusiasts alike. Note: Participants will create in-workshop poems and use them to blend; no need to bring poems already written.

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Betty Boyd Dettre Library and Research Center

How long have you been writing? (it's cool if you're just getting started, friend<3)

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BGIAS: Black Girls Writers Room (DMV) @ NMWA

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