Poetry Happy Hour Featuring Sandra Jackson-Opoku and Melan White

Gotahold Brewing has chosen the Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow (WCDH) as their #TipsforTransformation benefactor for April 2022. Poetry Happy Hours will be held at 5:30 pm every Thursday in April in the beer garden at Gotahold. The events will benefit the WCDH scholarship fund and celebrate National Poetry Month. On Thursday, April 7, at 5:30 pm Sandra Jackson-Opoku and Melan White will inspire the audience with their poetry.

Sandra Jackson-Opoku was first a writer-in-residence at the Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow in 2008 as the winner of the Maeve Fellowship for children’s writing. She is author of the award-winning novel, The River Where Blood is Born and Hot Johnny (and the Women Whom Loved Him), an Essence Magazine Bestseller in Hardcover Fiction. She coedited the anthology Revise the Psalm: Work Celebrating the Writing of Gwendolyn Brooks. Jackson-Opoku’s fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and dramatic works are widely published and produced. Recognition…