History of Power: Erasure as a Response to Political Unrest

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Tuesday, November 11, 2025
5:30pm PT - 7:30pm PT
via Zoom

One-Time Generative Writing Workshop

Tuesday, November 11, 2025
5:30pm PT - 7:30pm PT
via Zoom

One-Time Generative Writing Workshop

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Class Description

Part personal exploration, part historical study, in this class we will read the poems of poets Nicole Sealey, Yusef Komunyakaa, Jillian Weise, Mosab Abu Toha, Jennifer Sperry Steinorth, and Reginald Dwayne Betts to discover how erasure and ekphrastic techniques developed as direct responses to political unrest. In this two-hour, generative space, we will use these techniques as frameworks for exploring our own histories with erasure and marginalization. We will discuss the impact of erasure on our bodies and engage with prompts that encourage us to reclaim our narrative and our power.

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ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR

Allison Baldwin

 
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Allison Baldwin

is a poet and disability advocate. Her work has been published in print and online, most recently in the Right to Life anthology, published by Folkways Press. Her literary interests include lyrical and prose poems, ekphrasis and erasure, poetry and tarot, and young adult novels in verse. Allison holds an MFA in Poetry and Poetic Medicine from Dominican University of California and is currently developing her poetry collection, Divining the Silhouette.

Find her on Instagram @the_awakened_poet

 

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