Join Split This Rock for "I Am Here: Affirmation as Resistance," a virtual poetry workshop with Gabriel Ramirez. All writing levels are welcome and tickets are available for $30. In this workshop, participants can speak back to what has made us feel small, invisible, and impossible. This workshop encourages participants to reclaim their bodies and histories.
ABOUT THE FACILITATOR
Gabriel Ramirez, author of the chapbook IF PIT BULLS HAD A GOD IT’D BE A PIT BULL (The Head & The Hand Press) and the children’s book We’re Community, is a Queer Afro-Caribbean writer, performer, and educator. A 2023 Gregory Djanikian Scholar in Poetry at Adroit Journal and 2024-2025 Poetry Coalition Fellow, their publication credits include Poetry Magazine, Poem-a-Day, Muzzle Magazine, Adroit Journal, BOMB, The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNEXT (Haymarket Press 2020), and Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology (Library of America 2024). Learn more at www.ramirezpoet.com.
ABOUT SPLIT THIS ROCK
Split This Rock is the only national organization with a mission to integrate poetry and social justice. With strong commitments to racial, gender, economic, and disability justice, we work to expand the horizons of inclusion and assert the transformative power of language to bear witness to injustice and provoke social change. We believe poetry acts as an agent for change by revealing the diversity and complexity of human experience, reflecting on daily lives and struggles, considering personal and social responsibility, and envisioning a better world. Learn more at www.splitthisrock.org.