R175. Put Your Shit on Paper: Two Chicago-Based Writing Programs on Running Trauma-Informed High School Workshops
Thursday, February 27, 2014
12:00 pm to 1:15 pm
Gloria Anzaldúa calls on all writers to transform raw experience into poetic expression: "Write with your eyes like painters, with your ears like musicians, with your feet like dancers... Put your shit on paper." Panelists from Literature for All of Us and Young Chicago Authors share how this ethos inspires their trauma-informed writing programs with Chicago youth. Each organization will present their methodology, best practices and concrete tools for educators in and out of the classroom.
Participants
Moderator:
Liz London is a fiction writer and trained facilitator. Since 2011 she has been a Book Group Leader at Literature for All of Us, a literary arts organization for youth in Chicago. She has also worked for several years as a dialogue facilitator for an international, conflict resolution youth program.
rebecca brown is a poet. She has facilitated numerous community and school-based conversation circles for upwards of eight years.
VersAnnette Blackman is a performance poet, playwright, and a social justice advocate for ending violence against women. She joined the Literature for All of Us family in 2009.
Jamila Woods
Nathaniel Marshall
