Write Here | Write Now | Speak Loud! Mass Poetry Teen Spoken Word Festival

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This workshop will take place in Grub Street Room 6.

Workshop Description
The Native Tongue Social Justice Poetry Workshop is a space of decolonizing the constructs of language as we know it to celebrate our cultural backgrounds. In this session, we will present, analyze and discuss various representations of BIPOC identity through spoken word poetry. We will tap into our own interpretations of these works by creating poems to share.


Instructor Bio
Lyrical Faith is a Black American Educator, Activist and Spoken Word Poet from The Bronx, NY. She has been featured at colleges, universities, and venues across the country and globally. She is the 3rd ranked Woman Poet in the World as of the 2022 Women of the World Poetry Slam, a two-time Bronx Poet Laureate finalist, a multi-time award recipient of citywide and statewide arts agencies, and the 2015 Syracuse University Poet of the Year. 


She’s a graduate of the Public Relations program at Syracuse University, a Masters degree recipient of the Higher Education & Student Affairs program at NYU, and a current Social Justice Education Doctoral student at UMass Amherst studying the intersections of arts and activism. Her work has been featured on NPR, Button Poetry, Write About Now Poetry, Huffington Post Black Voices, and News 12 The Bronx.