Places We Call Home Poetry Workshop

Places We Call Home, a Poetry Workshop with Brenda Cárdenas

Besides the house you live in now, what places, people, other beings, or objects have felt like home to you? A river, forest, mountain, garden, lake, desert, or park? A mother, father, loving partner, community? A dog, cat, birds that visit your backyard, the neighborhood fox? A shelter, barn, old cabin? A language? A painting? A book? A city, town, country, continent? Your own body? In this free workshop, after reading and discussing example poems from the new Library of America Latino Poetry anthology and engaging in an exercise that helps us find the most specific language possible to animate our work, we will write poems regarding or riffing off of these alternative notions of home. If you are able, please bring photographs of some of the places, people, or other beings that are the places you call home. First…