Poets' Corner: 4 Workshop Bundle

Join us for four exciting workshops to invigorate your poetry!

Poetry Chapbook Workshop: Building Community and Crafting Submittable Work - March `15, 4:30-7:30 pm, Sabine St. Studios

The Dark Night of the Soul - March 21, 6-9 pm, Sabine St. Studios

Imagery & Metaphor for Poets - April 5, 4:30-7:30 pm, Sabine St. Studios

Building a Greater Narrative for Poetry - April 9, 6-9 pm, Online via Zoom

Looking to transform your poetry and meet like-minded writers? Join us for this four-class bundle beginning on March 15 to immerse yourself in a world of words, lyricism, and musicality?

Meet the instructors:

• Miranda Ramírez is a multidisciplinary artist and writer born in Houston, Texas. She’s the founder and director of Defunkt Press, and co-organizer of the Houston Poetry and Arts Festival. Her work has been featured in Atticus Review, Cowboy Jamboree, Puro Chicanx: Writers of the 21st Century, and St. Lucy Books’ compendium Double Feature.

• Zen Ase spent her adult life married, raising twin sons, and teaching high school in the inner city. Teacher of the Year for AHS in 2011-2012 and 2017-2018, a Claes Nobel Educator of Distinction and a University of Chicago Distinguished Educator, Zen changed her lifeand began a healing journey. That journey led her back to poetry, journaling, and becoming a spoken word artist. By 2020, she had performed at over 50 venues, hosted, and organized over 50 live music, comedy and poetry shows including Laughz and Lyrics. Ase became the Houston organizer for 100,000 Poets for Change, and was honored with a Congressional Award for activism. Her poetry and prose can be found in over a dozen anthologies and magazines including, “ Let’s Talk about Being Human,” “Selfhood,” “Restless,” “Five 2 One magazine”, “Caravel”, and “Switchback”.

• Melissa McEver Huckabay is a graduate of the MFA Creative Writing Program at Texas State University, an adjunct college instructor, and an experienced writer in a wide range of fields.. She also has taught English Language Arts and creative writing at the elementary, middle, and high school levels.

Melissa’s creative work has appeared in SWWIM, Thimble, Poetry South, Sweet: A Literary Confection, and elsewhere, and her short fiction has won the Spider’s Web Flash Fiction Prize from Spider Road Press. She was a 2023 Contributor to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

​Writespace, 1907 Sabine Street, Houston, United States