Join Split This Rock for "Odes: The Art of Salvaging," a virtual poetry workshop with Ana Portnoy Brimmer. All writing levels are welcome and tickets are available for $30. This workshop will explore how the ode as a contemporary form can function as a tactic to salvage all that which slips through the cracks and how, through this unearthing, odes can help us recover our memory, our joy, and our hope.
ABOUT THE FACILITATOR
Ana Portnoy Brimmer is a poet and translator from Puerto Rico. To Love an Island, her debut poetry collection, was originally the winner of YesYes Books’ 2019 Vinyl 45 Chapbook Contest. Ana is a 2024 Hedgebrook Writer-in-Residence Program Alumna, was awarded a 2023 MASS MoCA Fellowship for Artists from Puerto Rico, and was named one of Poets & Writers 2021 Debut Poets. Her publication credits include The Paris Review, Prairie Schooner, and Southeast Review. Ana is the daughter of Mexican-Jewish immigrants.
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.