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• TLA Network Virtual Salon

  • When
    07 December 2025
  •  
    5:00 PM - 6:30 PM (EST)
  • Location
    online
  • Registered
    7 registrants

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  TLA Network Virtual Salon

  Sunday, December 7, 2025

  Join Us!

  5:00–6:30 pm ET (UTC-5)
  

  4:00–5:30 pm CT // 3:00–4:30 pm MT // 2:00–3:30 pm PT // 10:00-11:30 pm UTC

  Click here to find your timezone.

  Our Virtual Salons feature TLAN members who all use the written, spoken, or sung word for personal and community transformation. TLAN members have incredibly generous spirits, and we are excited to provide a venue to feature their artistic work.
  

  The Transformative Language Arts Network (TLAN) virtual salons feature presenters who are active members of TLAN. Each presenter will have 5-7 minutes to present their written, spoken, or sung work followed by a brief period of audience response. 

  Registration is FREE and open to anyone, not just members of TLAN and will take place online via Zoom. 

  After the reading, there will be an artist talkback and time for questions and engagement from the audience. 

  You must register if you would like to attend: a Zoom link will be sent to all registrants the day before the event. We look forward to seeing you there!

  The salons are free to attend and donations to TLAN are very welcome to allow us to continue to sponsor events like this.

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  December Presenters!

  
  

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• New Years Revolution: Writing Toward the World We Deserve // with Tasjha Dixon

  • Start
    07 January 2026
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  • End
    03 March 2026
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  • Location
    Online
  • Spaces left
    21

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  Start the year in the company of revolutionaries.

  This 8-week course is an invitation to write your way into 2026 guided by the radical words of visionaries who changed the world.

  Drawing from the speeches, letters, and poetic declarations of bell hooks, James Baldwin, Gloria Anzaldúa, Audre Lorde, Angela Davis, Malcolm X, Assata Shakur, and others, we’ll excavate our own voices as tools of resistance, healing, and renewal.

  Each week, participants will engage with one revolutionary’s work and respond through journaling, poetry, and narrative writing that bridges the personal and the political. Sessions include creative prompts, reflection practices, and optional live Zoom circles for shared ritual and witness. This course is a sacred container for reclaiming our voice and rising into the new year with clarity, courage, and creativity.

  All levels welcome. Whether you’re a seasoned writer or someone just finding your way back to the page, you belong here.

  Week by Week

  Week 1 - Begin Again - Meet your cohort and ground together in embodied presence and vision. We’ll explore our personal intentions for the new year using writing, breathwork, and the revolutionary wisdom of Angela Davis and Thích Nhất Hạnh. Expect meditative prompts, gentle warm-up writing, and a group intention-setting ritual.

  Week 2 – The Personal is Political - Through the fierce and tender lens of Audre Lorde, we’ll examine the power of telling our stories. You’ll write from lived experience and begin to frame your identity as sacred testimony. Expect memory-based prompts, group reflection, and space to name what silence has cost you—and what your truth might set free.

  Week 3 – Writing from the Margins - Using Gloria Anzaldúa’s “Borderlands,” we’ll explore the beauty and complexity of liminal identities. You’ll write bilingually or across dialects if desired, create collage journals, and experiment with hybrid poetic and narrative forms. This week is about voice multiplicity and homecoming to all parts of yourself.

  Week 4 – Fire on the Page - This is our rage week. With the fire of Baldwin, Malcolm X, and June Jordan guiding us, we’ll explore anger as clarity and fuel. Expect bold monologues, stream-of-consciousness writing, and spoken word practice. We’ll learn to write with urgency, not apology.

  Week 5 – Vision & Reimagination - Here we pivot toward dreaming. With the expansive brilliance of Octavia Butler and adrienne maree brown, we’ll explore speculative writing as a tool for imagining what does not yet exist. You’ll build new worlds, write to your future selves, and share utopian fragments.

  Week 6 – Radical Self & Collective Care - Rest is revolutionary. We’ll use bell hooks and Tricia Hersey’s teachings to explore how care, boundaries, and rest shape our stories. This week includes slow writing, affirmations, and permission to pause. Expect practices that honor your nervous system and replenish your creativity.

  Week 7 – Letters to the Future - In dialogue with Assata Shakur and Martin Luther King Jr., we’ll write letters that cross time and lineage. You’ll be invited to speak directly to ancestors, descendants, and movements you hold dear. This week calls on legacy, gratitude, and prophetic imagination.

  Week 8 – Ceremony of Liberation - Our closing circle will honor the work we’ve done and the writers we’ve become. We’ll share final pieces, bless each other’s words, and create a communal liberation ritual. Participants will be invited to speak a vow for their writing life moving forward.

  Who Should Take This Class

  Writers, truth-tellers, cultural workers, educators, caregivers, activists, and anyone seeking renewal.

  BIPOC participants, LGBTQIA+ folks, veterans, single parents, healers, and spiritual seekers are especially encouraged to join.

  Whether you journal privately or share your work publicly, this space invites you to deepen your voice and vision in community.

  If cost is a barrier, we offer scholarships based on income as well as some partial scholarships for people living with serious illness and/or disability or people of color. Please fill out this scholarship application form so that we can find the best way to make the class accessible to you.

  Please note: Registration closes five (5) days before the class start date.

  What students are saying about learning with Tasjha

  “I left every session with clarity and courage. Tasjha’s classes are soul medicine.”

  “She holds space like a sacred drum—steady, powerful, and honest.”

  “Her work is healing, revolutionary, and deeply rooted in love.”

  Format

  This is a hybrid online class, hosted on the online teaching platform Wet Ink with additional sessions hosted on Zoom. 

  The day before class begins, you will receive an email invitation from Wet Ink. There are no browser requirements, and Wet Ink is mobile-friendly. The Wet Ink platform allows students to log in on their own time to post comments and critiques directly to authors’ works. You can also view deadlines, track revisions, and watch video or listen to audio. At the end of the class, each student will receive an email that contains an archive of all their content and interactions. 

  The facilitator will be in contact with Zoom session information. Zoom sessions will be recorded and made available only to the class.

  About the Teacher

  Tasjha Dixon is a trauma-informed writer, social worker, and Buddhist teacher whose work lives at the intersection of justice, embodiment, and storytelling. A disabled Army veteran, she is the founder of Empowering KC, where she offers writing workshops, yoga, and healing circles for communities in need. She’s an MFA candidate at Naropa University and teaches through a lens of anti-racism, feminism, and collective care.

  Website: empoweringkcwithtasjha.com

  Instagram: @tasjhadixon | Facebook: facebook.com/tasjhadixon

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• Meditate, Move, & Create // with Christina M. Rau

  • When
    07 January 2026
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    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM (EST)
  • Location
    online
  • Spaces left
    19

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  "Meditate, Move, & Create combines all the things I love—sharing a passion for creativity along with a practice of mindfulness and yoga.

  Participants get to experience how mind and body work together in the act of creation."

  On a chair or on a mat, you can join in for a session of meditation, yoga, and creating.

  • Breathe and move to settle your thoughts and find some inspiration.
  • Then pick up an instrument to write, sketch, play, or create in any way you wish.

  Open to all levels, including first-time writers, meditators, and yoga practitioners. Simply listening is also an option. You can use a towel or a yoga mat to practice on the floor (not necessary if on a chair).

  The session usually unfolds in this way:

  • Ice breaker chat;
  • quick write;
  • meditation;
  • writing;
  • yoga;
  • writing;
  • sharing and chat. 

  Who Should Take This Class

  This program draws folks who create in different genres at any adult age. First time practitioners of yoga and meditation as well as seasoned practitioners may participate.

  We offer scholarships based on income as well as some partial scholarships for people living with serious illness and/or disability or people of color. Please fill out this scholarship application form so that we can find the best way to make the class accessible to you.

  Please note: Registration closes January 2, 2026, five (5) days before the class start date. 

  What people are saying about learning with Christina
  

  Teachers from the LIPW: "It's great to get back to writing as well as yoga."

  ESWA: "This has been a great experience."

  Former NCC student: "You're the teacher who I thought of when my girlfriend asked for a teacher I learned a lot from."

  Format
  

  This is a single 90-minute Zoom session held on January 7, 2026 from 7-8:30 PM ET |6-7:30 PM CT | 5-6:30 PM MT | 4-5:30 PM PT | 12-1:30 AM UTC.  The zoom session will be recorded and shared with only registered students.

  About the Facilitator

  

  Christina M. Rau, The Yoga Poet, leads Meditate, Move, & Create™️ workshops for various organizations globally. Her collections include How We Make Amends, What We Do To Make Us Whole, and the Elgin Award-winning Liberating The Astronauts. She moderates the Women’s Poetry Listserv and has served as Poet in Residence for Oceanside Library (NY) since 2020. During her downtime, she watches the Game Show Network.

  https://www.christinamrau.com/

  FB/IG/X/Bsky: @christinamrau

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• Future Casting: Writing Towards a Just World Vision // with Caits Meissner

  • Start
    14 January 2026
  • End
    17 March 2026
  • Location
    Online
  • Spaces left
    28

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  In this generative class, "we’ll cast hope into the universe through ritual, spellmaking, disruption, and interactive poem-experiments— guided by a motley crew of visionary writers and thinkers."

  Have you ever discovered that a detail you’d once magically, unwittingly predicted in a poem suddenly became true? Or a spooky sign from an ancestor popped into your psyche in real time?

  In this generative workshop, we’ll strive to harness that same mystical energy to write our collective future into existence— through poetry.

  Inspiration will be mined from movement workers, social change influencers, the inherent genius of nature’s patterns, the starfish’s regenerative limb! We’ll cast hope into the universe through ritual, spellmaking, disruption, and interactive poem-experiments— guided by a motley crew of visionary writers and thinkers. Where we are used to lamenting and pushing against the conditions of what is, participants will be encouraged, when possible, to work from an emergent lens, feeling towards what could be instead.

  This course is designed for each student to connect to their own unique social justice intention.

  Given that the purpose of the workshop is to help participants expand awareness beyond ego-driven concerns, locate and amplify individual sources of creativity, and sense into futures of potential, the workshop offers no prescriptive answers or solutions. Instead, participants will be offered unusual writing exercises meant to coax forward new and unexpected ideas. A series of options will be presented for each individual to select from to ignite or catalyze their own creative responses.

  A sample poem that helps illustrate the kind of possibility we are after: Field Trip to the Museum of Human History by Franny Choi imagines a world where the brutality of American policing is an ancient system of the past.

  We’ll be inspired by readings from adrienne maree brown, CA Conrad, Aja Monet, Ada Limón, Joy Harjo, June Jordan, Margaret J. Wheatley, Layli Long Soldier, Kimiko Hahn, Harryette Mullen, Daniel Borzutsky, Natalie Diaz, Jaki Shelton Green, Etheridge Knight, Audre Lorde, Maggie Smith, Matthew Olzmann, Tracy K Smith, Joshua Jennifer Espinoza, José Olivarez, Otto Scharmer, Joshua Bennett, Tom Sleigh, Lucille Clifton, F.J. Bergmann, Martin Espada, Elizabeth Alexander, Ross Gay, Aracelis Girmay, Naomi Shihab Nye, Khadijah Queen, Vievee Francis, Matthew Mendoza, Mary Oliver, Nazim Hikmet, Big Energy Poets, dg nanouk okpik, Alberto Rios and many more!

  Week by Week

  There will be three Zoom gatherings functioning as check in points at the start, middle and end of the course. Otherwise, each week is an independent journey engaging with a series of diverse readings and thinkers, as well as multiple poems, revolving around a central theme. In response, unexpected poem-generating experiments will be engaged, as well as short and long writing prompts will be offered in service of generating new work well beyond the course conclusion.

  Many different entry points and options will be laid out for the participant to choose from, encouraged to work intuitively in the direction of what calls their attention, and moves their spirit. Breaking from hierarchical models of top-down power, participants will be asked at times to co-create exercises and curate readings.

  We’ll share encouraging feedback throughout the process on our shared message board— staying away from deep critique, opting instead for questions, curiosities and other methods of pushing the imagination further.

  Week 1 — Clarifying: Setting intention. Welcoming. Naming what is: what are we trying to change? / return to? / conjure? / address? / confront? / move forward?

  Week 2 — Returning: What was? Looking back to honor what we’ve lost: what’s been destroyed, taken for granted, colonized. What we miss. Taking stock, then, revising history.

  Week 3 — Reimagining: What are we allowed to be? How can we reimagine accepted norms, values, institutions, structures and relationships?

  Week 4 — Conjuring: Stretching to make the “unreal” a reality by engaging magic, ritual and fantasy to conjure a new world into existence.

  Week 5 — Offering: Looking through the lens of gratitude. Examining the present. Locating, pinpointing and amplifying the good that already exists.

  Week 6 — Preparing: Creating maps towards change: manifestos, process notes, blueprints and instructions.

  Week 7 — Inspiring: choosing a poem to put into form (ie: broadside, audio, etc.) and share.

  Week 8 — Closing: a live shared circle with the class to read our work and close the experience.

  Who Should Take This Class

  This generative workshop is for writers looking to confront our broken world with a sense of possibility, to combat writer’s block, begin a new collection, try something out of the ordinary and have some fun!

  Please note: this experience offers a great deal of choice, and invites the writer to draw from their own interests and internal dialogues. It is not a class that can, or will, dictate how to address our world through a lens of justice, but rather asks the writer to shake open possibilities for emergent futures that can’t yet be seen. If nontraditional learning spaces are not your cup of tea, this class may not resonate. If you are easily overwhelmed by choice and a variety of stimuli, this class may not be for you.

  If you are open to take a nonlinear journey that requires experimentation and a suspense of typical outcomes from poetry classes, then please join us. The hope is that each participant will leave with a packet of seeds for both their own portfolio, and, if we’re lucky, a glimmer of a better future we can cull forward.

  Class Format

  This is a hybrid Wet Ink + Zoom online class. Students should expect to spend at least 3 hours per week engaging with resources and readings, trying out writing/creation prompts, and briefly responding to peers’ work from a lens of “I notice, I wonder, I wish.” Our interactions will work towards sustaining a welcoming and inspiring community together.

  • Opening zoom on January 14, 2026 for intro -- 9pm ET
  • Mid-class zoom on February 18, 2026 for check in -- 9PM ET
  • Final zoom on March 17, 2026 for share out -- 9pm ET

  About the Teacher

  Caits Meissner is a widely published writer, multidisciplinary artist, creative strategist, and social impact producer known for her DIY credo and entrepreneurial spirit. She has collaborated with premiere cultural institutions, building classrooms, public programs, and communities of practice for many organizations including The Mellon Foundation, Essence Festival of Culture, PBS, PEN America, Tribeca Film Institute, The Brooklyn Museum, The Brooklyn Public Library, Lincoln Center, The Guggenheim Museum, The Lower Eastside Girls Club, The New School, and City College of New York. As the former Director of Prison and Justice Writing at PEN America and editor of The Sentences That Create Us: Crafting a Writer’s Life in Prison (Haymarket Books), of which tens of thousands were disseminated in prisons free of charge, she built national programs that empower incarcerated writers and the educators who serve them. Her teaching and facilitation—spanning universities, cultural spaces, and correctional facilities—center creative literacy as a vehicle for personal transformation, civic imagination, and collective liberation. caitsmakesart.com / instagram.com/caitsmakesart

  What People Say About Working With Caits

  "In this age of fury and despair over our collective well-being and fate, Caits class provides poets with the tools of hope. She conjures this hope with a variety of exercises, diverse selections of contemporary poems, workable prompts, and a few pointers toward a spiritual and ecological practice. I have never taken a poetry workshop in which I was so productive. I’d call her class inspirational." — Susan Chute

  "Caits gives and gives and gives to this workshop. Our class created & practiced magic through interpersonal care and consideration for the minute. Plus it was really fun." — Parisa Yekalamlari

  The workshop was truly a magical experience for me; and I'm not just saying that, I wasn't writing for a year before the class. I wouldn't say I was stuck (maybe I was), but I wasn't really inspired and I had convinced myself that I wasn't good about writing specific topics, but the workshop showed me that yes, I can branch out; yes, I can be experimental; and yes, I can be a witness and write about what's going in the world around me. Overall, I left the workshop with a new confidence! It was such a pleasure to work with you and this amazing, life-changing class syllabus." — Erika Jeffers

  “Thank you again for such a magical and transformative workshop. Your method of teaching and approach to generation is so beautiful and effective in a way I haven’t experienced it before, and I’m so thankful for it, and you!” — Jonina Diele

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• TLA: This is How It Started. This is How It’s Going. // with Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

  • When
    17 January 2026
  •  
    2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (CST)
  • Location
    online
  • Spaces left
    29

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  Come explore the roots, branches, and blossoms of writing for change
  

  In this special fundraising workshop for the TLA Network, we'll explore the roots, branches, and blossoms of writing for change, including how TLA sparked into being and developed, ways it’s seeded itself in our lives, communities, and world, and what its (and our) calling is now.

  As TLA is inherently collaborative and evolving, we’ll entertain an expansive view and welcome all voices—beginners and newcomers to TLA as well as old hats. Everyone is welcome!

  We’ll romp through the story of how TLA came to be, starting as a master’s level concentration in 2000 at Goddard College, growing into TLA Network in 2005, and sending up shoots of new growth in many surprising places places around the world.

  We’ll especially look at what TLA means to each of us as a practice, profession, way of knowing, and personal and communal calling.

  Along the way, we’ll experience some writing, meditation, and listening prompts to connect with more of our own words and the space in between them that also holds its wisdom.

  Come learn more about:
  

  • The roots of TLA’s story in the world.
  • How TLA has and is finding new branches and blossoms
  • What TLA means and can mean to us individually and collective as well as the importance of namign and claiming what we mean by terms such as healing, transformation, growth, and liberation.
  • What we sense and experience as possibilities and callings for TLA in our lives, communities, and world now.
  • Some ground rules and practices to consider and/or develop in how you embody and practice TLA in your life.

  We’ll also learn more about how TLA started and how it’s going in our lives while finding many convergences of joy, humor, and meaning together.

  What People Are Saying About Learning With Caryn

  Beyond being detailed, caring, and brilliant in her editing, teaching, and consulting work, there is something about Caryn’s warm, authentic, empowering, Inspiring, and joyful presence that I have rarely observed in other leaders. – Harriet Lerner

  After each class I recognize the peaceful place the class creates in me. My response to listening to others and hearing your responses to our work fills me with contentment, joy ,and satisfaction. The level of trust that we experience opens us to heartfelt honesty even as deeply painful experiences are shared.  Thank you for the sparks your words create. –  Patricia Durkin

  Caryn’s skill, talent, wit, and wisdom have shown me the way to begin writing again, which is a restorative healing process. Caryn has taught me to reach deep within and unabashedly, without apology or shame, to tell my own story.  - Julie Flora
  

  Who Should Attend?
  

  All who are curious about TLA -- whether you're a newcomer to it, just hear of it, have been around the block with it a few times, or are an old hat at practicing TLA -- are lovingly welcome. This workshop would benefit anyone wanting to understand more about the possibilities and callings of TLA in our time as we share its history and scope as well as where it's going. At the same time, this workshop could help people wanting to know a little more about what TLA is in the first place and/or what the place of TLA is for you and your community now, whether you are a writer, spoken word artist, storyteller, musician, facilitator, educator, healer or health professional, or other kind of change-maker.

  Format
  

  This class will be presented Saturday, January 17, 2026 from 3-5PM ET/ 2-4 PM CT/ 1-3 PM MT/ 12-2PM PT / 8-10 PM UTC as a one-time, two-hour Zoom session. The day after class a recording, as well as notes and resources from the class, will be emailed to class members only. 

  Your Registration Fee is a Donation
  

  Because this event is so generously being offered by Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg as a fundraiser, your entire registration fee will go directly to support scholarships, program development, and other offerings meant to expand and enrich our community. You will be helping programs like:

  • Power of Words Scholarship Fund
  • Online Class Scholarship Fund
  • The Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg Fund (conference and online class support for both BIPOC people and people who are living with serious illness and/or disabilities.)
  • Our free and open to all Community Circles and Virtual Salons

  Registration Levels:

  • Level I – $200.00
  • Level II – $150.00
  • Level III – $75.00
  • Level IV – $50.00

  We thank you. 

  About the Facilitator

  Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, PhD is the founder of Transformative Language Arts, the 2009-13 Kansas Poet Laureate is the author of 25 books, including the recent The Magic Eye: A Story of Saving a Life and a Place in the Age of Anxiety, and How Time Moves: New & Selected Poems; Miriam's Well, a novel. A beloved writing workshop facilitator and writing and Right Livelihood coach, she offers writing workshops widely, particularly for people living with serious illness, adults in transition, humans looking for greater connection with the earth, and poets and writers seeking their most courageous voice on the page and in their lives. She offers the weekly “Write Where You Are” through her Patreon page, and her long-time blog is “Everyday Magic” at CarynMirriamGoldberg.com. 

  Born hard-wired to make something (in art, music, and especially writing), Caryn’s long-time callings include writing as a spiritual and ecological path, yoga, cultivating a loving marriage, family, and community, and helping herself and others make and take leaps into the miraculous work of their lives. She lives in the country on land she and her husband, ecological writer Ken Lassman, have put in a conservation reserve and are restoring as prairie and woodlands. 

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• The (Extra)Ordinary Moment: The Art and Craft of Micro-Memoir // with Elizabeth Lukács Chesla

  • Start
    28 January 2026
  • End
    24 February 2026
  • Location
    Online
  • Spaces left
    17

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  Have a story to tell but don’t know where to begin?

  Micro-memoir, a form of flash nonfiction, invites you to tell a compelling personal story in under 300 words by focusing on the moment, the tiny flashes that illuminate the larger self. A unique hybrid form, the micro-memoir combines the brevity of poetry with the storytelling strategies of fiction to magnify, as writer Bernard Cooper says, “some small aspect of what it means to be human.” With such a limited length, the micro-memoir is as much a craft of what is not said as what is, making it an ideal genre for exploring the parts of our past (and present) that feel more difficult to share.

  In this generative four-week class, you’ll learn ways to create tiny written snapshots of your life, distilling experiences to their essence and capturing them in powerful prose.

  Weekly readings will offer insight and inspiration while weekly prompts will invite you to craft your own micros. You’ll give and receive kind, constructive feedback in a supportive community through our online platform as well as our optional Zoom classes, which will provide additional writing exercises and the opportunity to ask questions, dive deeper into texts, and share your ideas and explorations with each other.

  “If you take only one thing from this course, I hope you leave with a deeper appreciation for, and honed attention to, the moment: the way the small can contain and carry the big, offering a flash of truth or understanding, an invitation to witness ourselves and others with greater care and compassion.”
  

  Week by Week

  Week 1: What is micro-memoir, and what gives it its power? We’ll define this hybrid genre, exploring how it is different from longer nonfiction pieces, what it shares with and how it differs from prose poetry, and what fiction and poetic techniques writers use to enhance the telling of their life stories. We’ll consider why it’s an increasingly popular form, survey a wide range of examples for strategies and inspiration, and experiment with exercises to generate ideas for your own micros. What are the “decisive moments” you want to capture?

  Week 2: Despite its brevity, the backbone of a micro-memoir is still story: something happens to someone and impacts them in some way. But the brevity of the genre means that it needs something other than the typical exposition-to-resolution narrative arc. This week, we’ll compare and contrast the structure of micros with those of longer traditional pieces to show how micro-memoirists wrangle and subvert traditional elements of plotting and pacing to pare down the story arc and capture the moment and its power.

  Week 3: We remember in flashes, and the essence of a memory is often triggered by or held in an image or detail—some small, often ordinary thing that comes to reflect or encapsulate a deeply meaningful human experience. This week, we’ll explore ways to use active imagery and detail in micro pieces to allow ordinary things to carry the extraordinary emotional weight of our experiences. We’ll carefully consider word choice, too, to make sure each word is pulling its weight.

  Week 4: “Flash,” says writer and editor Dinty Moore, “is as much erasure as it is composition.” This week, we’ll experiment with making more from less by making your micros even smaller. What happens when you cut 300 words down to 200, 100, 50? We’ll explore when, why, and how to pare your micro down and make a smaller flash burn brighter. We’ll also look at resources for writers of micro-memoir, including craft guides and journals that publish micros, and possibilities for weaving micros together into a larger work. We’ll close the course with an optional Zoom wrap-up and reading session.

  Recommended text: The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Nonfiction: Advice and Essential Exercises from Respected Writers, Editors, and Teachers, ed. Dinty W. Moore, 2012.

  Who Should Take This Class

  This class is for anyone interested in memoir, creative nonfiction, and/or flash forms. It may be especially useful for people who want to tell their stories but don’t know where to begin: You’re invited to start small and see where it takes you.

  If you are already experimenting with the memoir form, join us to experiment with this form and see if some of your stories can do more with less.

  This course gives participants who want to tell their story a new genre to explore. While it may sound intimidating, the micro-memoir is actually quite accessible as a form and offers a great deal of opportunity for experimentation that can help writers find their voice and clarify what stories they want to tell, and why.  By zooming in on the moment rather than trying to tell a grand life story, participants will also gain confidence as storytellers and authors of their own experience.

  We offer scholarships based on income as well as some partial scholarships for people living with serious illness and/or disability or people of color through the Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg Fund. Please fill out this scholarship application form so that we can find the best way to make the class accessible to you.

  
  

  What People Are Saying About Learning With Liz
  

  “I learned that I can be free as a writer to tell the truth as I know it . . . I didn't realize just how much it was holding me back until taking this class and allowing myself that freedom to explore.”

  “Liz allowed us to enter a space of writing with freedom. The responses and engagement from others in the class was nourishing and kind.” 

  “In this course I wrote and shared from places of trauma. I had not ever done that before, except in private. I will remember this course for doing that for me.”

  “This class introduced me not only to a new form of writing, but to new ways of thinking about truth, fiction v. non-fiction, what it means to write anything, and what forms that may take. Quite a lot in six weeks, I'd say. It has opened a door that has been closing me off from writing what I feel I need to write but have been afraid to try, fearing ‘what they'd say.’ Forever grateful!”

  Format

  This is an online class, hosted on the online teaching platformWet Ink. The day before class begins, you will receive an email invitation from Wet Ink. There are no browser requirements, and Wet Ink is mobile-friendly. The Wet Ink platform allows you to log in and complete the coursework on your own time. Coursework for each week will be posted by 6:00 AM EDT each Wednesday beginning January 28. 

  Weekly, optional 60-minute Zoom sessions will take place on the following schedule:

  • Thursday, February 5,: 12:00-1:00 PM Eastern time (11:00 AM CT, 10:00 AM MT, 9:00 AM PT)
  • Thursday, February 12: 8:00-9:00 PM Eastern time (7:00 PM CT, 6:00 PM MT, 5:00 PM PT)
  • Thursday, February 19: 12:00-1:00 PM Eastern time (11:00 AM CT, 10:00 AM MT, 9:00 AM PT)
  • Thursday, February 26: 8:00-9:00 PM Eastern time (7:00 PM CT, 6:00 PM MT, 5:00 PM PT)

  Sessions will be recorded and made available only to the class. 

  This class utilizes personal reflection, group discussion, and writing exercises to explore the art and craft of micro-memoir. You should plan to spend about three hours per week on the class writing and sharing your responses to the readings, discussion questions, creative writing prompts, and posts by your peers. The class is formatted so that you can engage with the material any time throughout the week. At the end of the class, you will receive an email that contains an archive of all your content and interactions.

  About the Facilitator

  Elizabeth Lukács Chesla is the author of You Cannot Forbid the Flower, an award-winning hybrid novella based on her father’s experiences in World War II and the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. The daughter of Hungarian refugees and a mother of three, she earned her MA from Columbia University and spent a decade teaching writing and literature in New York City before moving back home to Pennsylvania to raise her family. She is the author of multiple books on reading, writing, and critical thinking skills and holds a certificate in Transformative Language Arts Foundations. Liz serves as fiction editor for Consequence Forum and senior editor for Inch & Meter, and she offers editorial and coaching support for emerging authors. Her short prose and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in Quarter After Eight, Hungarian Literature Online,Another Chicago Magazine, and Flare: An Anthology of Chronic Illness Told in Flash Narratives. She writes, edits, and teaches from the suburbs of Philadelphia.

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• Writing Hope: Turning to the Page in Difficult Times // with Angie Ebba

  • Start
    04 March 2026
  • End
    28 April 2026
  • Location
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  This six-week class will help us turn our fears, frustrations, and worries into words that help remind us of the positive in the world.

  Our world is shifting, and between environmental concerns, political issues, humanitarian crises, and our own personal changes and shifts, it can be easy to become overwhelmed.

  However, for thousands of years, poetry has been a vehicle of hope.

  This six-week class will help us turn our fears, frustrations, and worries into words that help remind us of the positive in the world. Through a variety of readings and texts, online discussions, and creative writing exercises, participants will investigate the topic of hope, how poetry can elicit hope, and ways to use our words to inspire and uplift. We will explore these themes through various forms of poetry including free verse, haibun, pantoum, tricube, collaborative writing and others, and we will investigate the use of poetic devices such as metaphor, repetition and rhyme, and more to enhance our writing. 

  Each week will include a variety of readings, both of poetry on the topic of hope or that brings hope, as well as essays and other texts discussing hope and writing.

  Each week will have a free-writing exercise, discussion boards to talk with your peers and build community, and at least three poetry prompts to choose from. 

  Week by Week

  Week One ​will begin with an overview of why writing is important and how to keep (or start!) writing when our worlds are turning upside-down. We will talk about practices for writing when things are hard, and how to take care of ourselves. We will also do introductions of ourselves, our daily worlds, and our creative practices.

  Week Two will discuss the role of poetry in the world and how our creative practices can be a source of hope and inspiration. We will use repetition in our writing to create musicality and rhythm and will talk about how this poetic device can be used to emphasize key themes in our writing.

  Week Three will discuss metaphor, both as a poetic device and also as a powerful tool for explaining difficult concepts. We will talk about the difference between hope and toxic positivity, and how to write hope while also not ignoring what is going on around us. We will experiment with writing metaphor and including it in our poetry.

  Week Four will introduce the idea of ‘glimmers’ or small moments of joy. We will discuss ways to focus on these both in our lives and in our writing. We will practice with the technique of ‘small noticings’ and incorporate strong sensory details into our poems.

  Week Five will focus on the narrative poem. We will talk about the importance of telling our stories, and how we can use our personal stories to generate hope. 

  Week Six​ will bring the various writing we’ve done throughout the course together and will include a collaborative poem as well. We will reflect on what we’ve gained and learned over the last several weeks and ways we plan to continue this work. There will be the opportunity to meet via Zoom for a reading of our work, and to gather in community.

  This course includes readings by poets such as: Emily Dickenson, Maya Angelou, Leonard Peltier, Naomi Shihab Nye, Andrea Gibson, Lucille Clifton, Anis Mojgani, Audre Lorde, Gregory Orr, Joy Harjo, Rudy Francisco, Shane Koyczan and more.

  Who Should Take This Class

  This class is ideal for anyone feeling overwhelmed by the world, going through a difficult period in life, or processing change, as well as those wishing to expand their creative practices or learn/practice various types of poetry. All levels of writers are welcome.
  

  If cost is a barrier, we offer scholarships based on income as well as some partial scholarships for people living with serious illness and/or disability or people of color. Please fill out this scholarship application form so that we can find the best way to make the class accessible to you.

  Please note: Registration closes five (5) days before the class start date.
  

  What former students have to say:

  • "I thought the instructor was marvelous - organized, prompt, thoughtful, and dedicated to giving what read as honest and notable feedback."
  • "Thank you so much for providing the content and a warm atmosphere."
  • "Angie's structure, readings, invitations and responses really helped me use poetry to process."
  • "Angie was warm and encouraging."

  Format

  This is an online class, hosted on the online teaching platform Wet Ink with one optional Zoom session (date and time TBA).

  The Wet Ink platform allows students to log in on their own time to post comments and critiques directly to authors’ works. You can also view deadlines, track revisions, and watch video or listen to audio. At the end of the class, each student will receive an email that contains an archive of all their content and interactions. Wet Ink is mobile-friendly and there are no browser requirements.

  About the Teacher

  ​Angie Ebba is a queer, disabled writer, educator, and performer who teaches writing workshops and performs online and across the United States. She has poetry published in Closet Cases, Queering Sexual Violence, Moon Water, and multiple other anthologies and literary magazines. She is a published essayist focusing on writing about disability and chronic illness, relationships and sexuality, and body positivity. She believes in the power of words to help us gain a better understanding of ourselves, to build connections and community, and to make personal and social change. Angie can be found online at rebelonpage.com
  

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• Foundations of Facilitation // with Amanda Faye Lacson & Tracie Nichols

  • Start
    04 March 2026
  • End
    28 April 2026
  • Location
    online
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  This course introduces the foundations and best practices of facilitation to TLA practitioners.

  You will learn about yourself as a facilitator and explore principles for designing and facilitating effective workshops that carefully consider ways to support different populations.

  You will emerge from the class with a Capstone Project, a detailed workshop proposal that covers the content and structure of your program; considerations for marketing, ethics, technology, and moving in the physical space depending on the populations you plan to welcome in; and how you might facilitate the work beyond the workshop space and connect to a larger community. 

  Weekly Zoom sessions and Wet Ink lessons with extensive resources will cover course content and offer opportunities to engage with and practice facilitation principles. Weekly assignments will include readings, written responses, and self-care practices.

  Week by Week

  Week 1: Roles & Rules: Introduction to Facilitation

  In this opening session, we’ll introduce ourselves, the course, and the foundational principles of facilitation. These principles are rooted in the idea that whatever the subject or situation, the goal of facilitation is to support individual and collective transformation. We’ll also cover the importance of establishing ground rules and prioritizing self-care.

  Week 2: Good Bones: Structuring Workshops for Effective Facilitation

  Effective facilitation depends on a program that has “good bones.” In this session, we’ll explore   foundational principles and techniques for planning, organizing, and reviewing facilitation sessions. We’ll focus on ways to build a solid yet flexible structure that supports your goals and meets the needs of your participants.

  Week 3: Considering Power Dynamics of Rank and Class

  As a course designer and facilitator, you bring a position of privilege and higher rank into a room from the beginning. Tied up with rank, especially in our society, is class, which isn’t just salaries earned, but what access people have to good education, meaningful employment, and safe communities. In this week we will discuss what ranks we live with on a regular basis, and the ones that we take on and off, depending on the situation. We will also discuss perceived power, and what you may or may not want to do to take on or cede power in the groups you facilitate.

  Week 4: Facilitating across Identity: 

  In this session, we will look at different ways to facilitate groups of mixed identity, including affiliations with race, gender, sexuality, generations and parenthood. We will learn how we are socialized to think about different identities; if/how we have had experience with conversations across identities; and what considerations we can adopt when creating a space that will be welcoming across identity. 

  Week 5: Facilitating across Disabled, Neurodiverse and Aging Bodies:

  In this session, we will discuss how to prepare for and facilitate across disability, neurodiversity, serious illness, and aging bodies. We are operating from a social model of disability, which says “individual limitations are not the cause of disability. Rather, it is society’s failure to provide appropriate services and adequately ensure that the needs of disabled people are taken into account in societal organization.” We want to discuss how we can create spaces that do not “disable” our participants. How can we structure access in our workshops from the beginning, instead of having to create accommodations as issues arise?

  Week 6: Trauma-Informed Facilitation: 

  No matter what kind of workshop or event you facilitate, a majority of your participants will have experienced at least one traumatic event in their lives. And as transformative language artists, we often work with specific survivor populations to offer tools and opportunities for personal and communal healing. In this session, we’ll discuss trauma, its impact, and why a trauma-informed approach is so important in facilitation. You’ll learn the key principles of trauma-informed facilitation as well as practical steps to take before, during, and after facilitating. You’ll also be reminded of the importance of self-awareness and self-care as a trauma-informed facilitator.

  Week 7: Facilitating for Community Transformation:

  One of the unique tasks of a Transformative Language Artist is that we use words not only for personal transformation, but to effect change in our communities. In this session, we will discuss ways to bring your work and the work of your participants out into the community. How can you continue the conversation beyond the workshop space? Who, in your community, needs your work? What is the change that you wish to see in your community? Through reviewing examples of TLA in the world, we will consider ways you as a facilitator can contribute to community dialogue and transformation. 

  Week 8: Capstone Project Presentations:

  The final week will include the opportunity to present your Capstone Project, a document that outlines the offering you would like to present in your community, and what considerations you plan to take in your facilitation approach. As this is a living document that you will work on throughout the class, we will discuss: How has your vision evolved from the beginning of class? What challenges or barriers do you anticipate in fulfilling this work? What considerations have you most appreciated? What considerations may you have missed?

  Who Should Take This Class
  

  This class is required for the Certification in TLA Foundations. It is appropriate for beginning and seasoned facilitators who are new to TLA; TLA practitioners who are seasoned in their art and looking to facilitate work in their community; and TLA artists and facilitators who want to update their practices with current language and best practices around community identities.

  Format
  

  Weekly Zoom sessions are scheduled for Saturday March 7, 14, 21, 28 and April 4, 11, 18 & 25, 2026 from 3-4:30 p.m. EDT (UTC -4). Click here to convert to your time zone.

  Because we are dedicated to making the course as accessible as possible, all sessions will be recorded. All class materials (lessons, assignments, and extensive resources) will be shared each week in Wet Ink. Students who cannot make a live call have the option of watching or listening to the recording and responding to the prompts/questions in the asynchronous classroom platform, Wet Ink.

  About the Facilitators

  Amanda Faye Lacson (she/hers) is a Filipina-American writer, photographer and historian. She examines how our identities are shaped, how they impact the way we move in the world, and how we write our history through her creative nonfiction and playwriting; photography documenting the artistic process; oral history-oriented podcast interviewing; and by creating and facilitating community-based workshops for the family historian. Amanda is a board member and Membership co-chair of the Transformative Language Arts Network; writer, performer and director with the Playful Substance theater company; and producer, host and editor of Goddard in the World Podcast. She is also the founder of FamilyArchive Business, a studio designed to support the family historian at any point in the archiving process, from organizing photos in boxes to creating a final product to share with the family.

  Recent projects include: writing and performing work based on her experience as a Pinay child and mother in the devised theater piece Raised Pinay: The 5^th Generation; presenting a generative writing workshop on using Transformative Language Arts to create and deepen one’s family archive at the TLAN Power of Words conference; writing a satirical monologue from the perspective of Christopher Columbus reckoning with his legacy in the afterlife, for Playful Substance; and photographing classical Indian dance performance by Brooklyn Raga Massive for Chelsea Factory. Keep up with Amanda's work at amandafayelacson.com.

  Tracie Nichols (she/her) is a poet, facilitator, HSP, over-thinker, introvert, and woman of deepening years. When she's not doing managing director things for the Transformative Language Arts Network (TLAN), she writes poetry and creates seasonal word adventures for shy but curious people. 

  Tracie’s appreciation for the power of words to heal and transform started decades ago when she began writing poems to navigate early trauma. She knew she'd found home with the Transformative Language Arts Network community when she realized it merged the principles of her graduate degree in Transformative Learning and Change with her passion for writing as a path to healing and growth.

  Today, she lives in southeastern Pennsylvania with her husband, occasionally her adult children, and a very large ginger tabby cat named Strider. She writes poems from her tiny desk under the wide reach of two old Sycamore trees. Tracie is honored that her recent work has appeared in kerning, Rogue Agent, Text Power Telling, and The Weight of Motherhood anthology.

  Connect with Tracie at tracienichols.com.

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• Breathing into Bloom: A Spring Writing Practice for Renewal // with Tasjha Dixon

  • Start
    29 April 2026
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  • End
    26 May 2026
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  • Location
    Online
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  Come breathe, write, and begin again.

  From a space of embodied awareness, you will write intuitively, reflect deeply, and reconnect to your own seasonal becoming.

  Spring is a season of emergence, of breath, of beginning again. This 4-week course is an invitation to honor the breath as a sacred teacher—always recycling, always renewing—mirroring the energy of the Earth’s reawakening. As sap rises in trees and blossoms push toward sunlight, our breath invites us to rise and unfurl into new versions of ourselves. Through breath we arrive, release, remember, and begin again.

  Each session is a living ritual—a return to the sacred rhythm of inhale and exhale as a creative wellspring. We will center pranayama (yogic breathwork) not just as a grounding practice, but as a spiritual and creative doorway. From this space of embodied awareness, you will write intuitively, reflect deeply, and reconnect to your own seasonal becoming.

  This course is not about performance or product. It is a space of pause, presence, and personal ritual. With each breath and page, we soften toward our becoming. There are no outside readings or academic expectations—only the invitation to listen inward and write from the breath itself.

  Whether you are beginning again, shedding something old, or blooming into a new version of yourself, you are welcome here.

  Week by Week

  Week 1 – The Inhale: Arriving to the Page - We begin by slowing down and tuning in. Breath as teacher, breath as anchor. This week introduces body-based journaling, awareness practices, and freewriting from the breath. We explore how the inhale brings us into presence and reminds us that we are here.Pranayama: Dirga Swasam (Three-Part Breath) to expand awareness and grounding.Prompt: “When I listen to my breath, what truth do I hear?”

  Week 2 – The Pause: Writing from the Center - This week explores the stillness between inhale and exhale as fertile ground for creativity. The sacred pause holds space for what is yet unspoken. We'll journal from this still point and hold presence with what has not yet become.Pranayama: Kumbhaka (Breath Retention) to deepen introspection and anchor presence.Prompt: “What waits for me in the silence between?”

  Week 3 – The Exhale: Releasing on the Page - We write to let go—of shame, perfection, or stories that no longer serve. Through breath-led movement, cleansing rituals, and honest reflection, you’ll write into what’s ready to leave. This is our composting moment.Pranayama: Nadi Shodhana (Alternate Nostril Breathing) to balance and purify emotional flow.Prompt: “What am I ready to exhale, release, or surrender?”

  Week 4 – Integration: Breath as a Blessing - We close in gratitude and clarity. Breathing into a vow, a vision, or a love letter to self. You’ll reflect on the journey of breath and becoming, writing one final offering in honor of your own sacred rhythm.Pranayama: Sama Vritti (Equal Ratio Breathing) to invite harmony and integration.Prompt: “What does my breath want me to remember about becoming?”

  Who Should Take This Class

  This course is for anyone craving stillness, truth, and renewal. Writers, healers, parents, artists, survivors, caregivers, and beginners are welcome. If you can breathe, you can write. This class is a space to remember that your breath is sacred—and your story is too.

  If cost is a barrier, we offer scholarships based on income as well as some partial scholarships for people living with serious illness and/or disability or people of color. Please fill out this scholarship application form so that we can find the best way to make the class accessible to you.

  Please note: Registration closes five (5) days before the class start date.

  What students are saying about learning with Tasjha

  “This was exactly what I didn’t know I needed.”

  
  

  “Tasjha’s presence is warm, powerful, and deeply affirming.”

  
  

  “This is what writing for the soul looks like.”

  
  

  Format

  This is a hybrid online class, hosted on the online teaching platform Wet Ink with additional sessions hosted on Zoom. 

  The day before class begins, you will receive an email invitation from Wet Ink. There are no browser requirements, and Wet Ink is mobile-friendly. The Wet Ink platform allows students to log in on their own time to post comments and critiques directly to authors’ works. You can also view deadlines, track revisions, and watch video or listen to audio. At the end of the class, each student will receive an email that contains an archive of all their content and interactions. 

  The facilitator will be in contact with Zoom session information. Zoom sessions will be recorded and made available only to the class.

  About the Teacher

  Tasjha Dixon (she/her) is a poet, trauma-informed writing facilitator, and Buddhist social worker who guides sacred spaces of voice, breath, and becoming. Founder of Empowering KC, Tasjha has 20+ years of experience in healing-centered care and completed her MFA at Naropa University in August 2025.

  Website: empoweringkcwithtasjha.com

  Instagram: @tasjhadixon | Facebook: facebook.com/tasjhadixon

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• Threshold of Tongues: Writing from our Ancestral Wombs // with Kashiana Singh and Pramila Venkateswaran

  • Start
    09 May 2026
  • End
    30 May 2026
  • Location
    Online
  • Spaces left
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  What if someone said you could create powerful, living poetry from both the stories and the silences you carry?

  In a time when the world feels increasingly fractured—marked by geopolitical uncertainty, climate crisis, and the shifting sands of identity—poetry offers both anchor and compass. With thoughtful prompts and expert guidance, Kashiana Singh and Pramila Venkateswaran will help you craft poems that draw on ancestral and cultural syntax, inviting sensitivity, honesty, and connection.

  This workshop creates space for the stories we carry—those buried in the silences of elders who could not or would not bring them across thresholds of migration, displacement, or trauma.

  Through embodied language and intentional writing practices, we’ll call forth these silences and transform them into powerful, living poetry.

  For both beginners and experienced poets, the workshop provides a sanctuary to explore the intersections of heritage and the present moment. 

  In a world navigating deep uncertainty, Threshold of Tongues becomes a vessel—not just for reflection but for resilience, offering participants a way to yield to the world’s challenges while discovering inspiration in its complexities.

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  Description of the Panel:

  Poetry serves as a portal for those whose heritage has been disrupted by violence, colonization, and displacement. This panel is an invitation to air out the stories we often tuck away in attics, closets, journals, or even deep within our bodies. With discernment, we’ll explore what to salvage, what to unlearn, and what we must leave behind. We will call forth these gnarled stories, finding sound for them and housing them in poetic altars—where they can be honored and reshaped.

  Through poetry, texts, and references, this panel will create space for participants and panelists alike to unlearn and rediscover what is essential, grounding, and liberating within our histories.

  The stories, whether remembered or forgotten, live inside us, waiting for the right moment to emerge. This panel offers an opportunity to open the doors to these words, rhythms, mantras, and wisdom. While some stories may feel gnarled or deformed by time and trauma, they are no less a source of deep-rooted truth—the truth that transcends data, facts, and historical records, and instead speaks to the unchanging core of who we are.

  Join us as we reclaim, reconnect, and reimagine what our heritage can offer in these uncertain times.

  The four sessions will flow to and through the following :

  Holding Space - Reading from reference texts to ground the discussion –

  ● How I Became a Tree by Sumana Roy

  ● The Overstory by Richard Powers

  ● Our Ancestors Did Not Breathe This Air Anthology

  ● Every Poem Has Ancestors by Joy Harjo

  ● Ancestors by Ada Limón

  ● Crazy Brave by Joy Harjo

  ● “The Aisling” Irish dream poem in which Ireland appears to the poet personified as a woman.

  ● Poetry of Immigration, Refugees, and Exile

  Session 1: Invocation

  In this session, we will engage in readings from poets whose works are deeply inspired by ancestral words, languages, and the intricate weave of displacement. These texts will serve as a gateway to understanding how distance and history shape our identities, calling forth the echoes of our ancestors in poetic form.

  Session 2: Gazing Inwards

  With a ceremonial fishbowl, we’ll invite participants to ask questions that lead us into a still space of deep reflection. This introspective exploration will focus on the roots and root systems of our ancestors—those foundations that nourish our poetic voices. Poems and texts will guide us into this space, helping us integrate both personal and collective histories into the creative process.

  Session 3: Going Outwards

  Now, we will turn our gaze outward, opening doorways for our participants to bring forth examples of their own communities—folk tales, places, food, and superstitions. Like a collective ritual, the poems generated in Session 2 will be shared and welcomed into the cohort, expanding our understanding of heritage through diverse lenses and experiences.

  Session 4: Contemplation

  In our final session, we will leave with more than just first drafts of poems—we will carry our bodily and soul selves forward, enriched by the reflections and creative energy of the workshop. Our poems will open new doorways, ushering in fresh creativity and deeper connection to the legacies we’ve explored.

  Who Should Take This Class

  Poets as keepers will engage with poetry of persistence and resistance. Pathways to our Ancestral systems that ignite memory and hidden narratives. We will gently unbind and trace our roots, roots that have either been axed, twisted, corroded, or displaced. Through these roots, we will start to locate pathways that lead us into the tree system of our ancestors. 

  Join us if you are: 

  • Interested in ancestral and cultural exploration – People seeking to connect with or better understand their lineage and heritage.

  • Engaged in healing or transformative work – Those exploring identity, intergenerational trauma, or self-discovery.

  • Writers, poets, and creatives – Especially those who use art as a means of reflection, resistance, or reclamation.

  • Educators, historians, or students – Individuals open to alternative narratives that challenge conventional histories.

  • Spiritual seekers – Participants drawn to practices that honor intuition, memory, and inherited wisdom.

  If cost is a barrier, we offer scholarships based on income as well as some partial scholarships for people living with serious illness and/or disability or people of color. Please fill out this scholarship application form so that we can find the best way to make the class accessible to you.

  Please note: Registration closes five (5) days before the class start date.
  

  What former students have to say:
  

  “Such rich content.” Leslie

  “I wrote something and from something I had tucked away behind years of learned patterns.” Jena

  “How refreshing to have two diaspora poets lead these workshops and speak in authentic voices.” Pramila

  Format

  Class will meet using Zoom on four consecutive Saturdays at 11am EST. 

  About the Facilitators

  When Kashiana Singh is not writing, she lives to embody her TEDx talk theme of Work as Worship into her every day. Author of 4 collections with Witching Hour released in December 2024 with Glass Lyre Press.

  Pramila Venkateswaran, poet laureate of Suffolk County, Long Island. Author of 8 collections she is a Professor of English at Nassau Community College (SUNY).

  Both are actively involved in giving workshops and readings and lead the Matwaala South Asian Diaspora Poetry collective.

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