Hosted by Passengers Journal Poetry Editor Andreea Ceplinschi.

A generative workshop session where participants will have the opportunity to read and discuss the poetry stylings of Rosa Alcala, Jennifer Sperry Steinorth, and Chris Abani (alongside painting by Percival Everett), then create their own pieces inspired by each poem: one piece using heritage and personal history as background, a second piece by erasure of the first, and finally an ekphrastic piece. The workshop is meant to be both generative and educational, an open conversation about making personal history relevant to a larger audience, how to approach erasure of one’s own work vs. erasure of an existing work, and the role personal perspective plays in tackling the ekphrastic.