Please join the Institute for the Study of Los Angeles (ISLA) as we host a free series of 'Viva Poetry' workshops in the community in collaboration with the Lummis Days Festival. The Lummis Days/ISLA Viva Poetry Series is made possible by Howard & Roberta Ahmanson with additional support from the Arts and Urban Experience Initiative which is generously funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Poet and Museum Educator Alicia Vogl Saenz leads free poetry workshop, "Meeting the Mysterious Self." Alicia will help you evolve a new poem by slowing down the internal chatter so that you can get to the essential good stuff, the material that makes strong poems.
Alicia Vogl Saenz is a poet, meditator, and museum educator who brings her queer and mixed immigrant background to her writing and teaching. Her work has appeared in journals and anthologies such as Grand Street, Blue Mesa Review, Mischief, Caprice, and Other Poetic Strategies (Red Hen Press) and the chapbook The Day I Wore the Red Coat (VCP Press, 2001). Alicia has performed her poetry throughout Los Angeles, most recently as part of the community celebrations of The Secret City. She is a member of Macondo Writers Workshop, the Lezarati Writer’s Group, and has been in residence at Hedgebrook. Her blog, Translucent Matter can be found at aliciabird.me
Please note this workshop will take place at:
The Eagle Rock Library
5027 Caspar Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90041
