Characters and Voices: Write the Other
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The first price increase on Gate Passes is on Wednesday, March 4! Purchase your tickets by Tuesday, March 3 to get the current and lowest rate.
Description
Instructor
Each poem is a step into the unknown, an opportunity to go beyond our lives and our experiences. The poem is a vessel for empathy and connection. In this generative workshop, participants will generate poems in the perspectives of others than themselves, of public and historical persona, and revise works by strengthening the voices in them. We will learn from other poets like John Berryman, Tyehimba Jess, Shara McCallumn, Natasha Trethewey, and more.
Sony Ton-Aime
Sony Ton-Aime is a Haitian poet, essayist, translator, and Executive Director of Pittsburgh Arts and Lectures. He is the author of the poetry collection, Konbit (2026, CMU Press), the chapbook, LaWomann (2019), the Haitian Creole translation of Olympic Hero: The Lennox Kilgour’s Story, and co-founding editor of ID13. His work has appeared and is forthcoming in Artful Dodge, Cream City Review, Idaho Review, Hunger Mountain Review, and Cleveland Review of Books, Consequence Forum, among others.