“Memory: The Present Past” Virtual Poetry Workshop with Simóne Banks

Spend your lunch hour honing a new skill! The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow (WCDH) is proud to present a virtual lunch and learn poetry workshop, “Memory: The Present Past,” instructed by Simóne J. Banks. All proceeds from this workshop will benefit the WCDH scholarship fund. Established in December 2019, the fund directly assists emerging writers by providing financial support so that they may benefit from a writing residency. Scholarships are awarded on an as-needed basis depending on availability.

Memory is where we store, archive, and recollect. Learn how poetry can be a vehicle for the retelling of the memories we may have forgotten and those we still live with. How we understand the past is constantly shifting. As Sandra Cisneros once asked a room full of potential writers, “What do you know that you wish you could forget?” In this workshop, we will explore those stories. There is no…