You are invited to Kevin Powell’s writing workshop
FREE via Zoom every Tuesday THIS FALL 2021, 7-9 p.m. New York time.
Writers of all backgrounds, levels and ages are welcome.
Click here to zoom: https://bit.ly/
Zoom access code (if necessary): 928329
Tuesday October 5 – “The Beautiful Art and Business of Writing” with KEVIN POWELL, poet, journalist, filmmaker, author of 14 books and biographer of Tupac Shakur
Tuesday October 12 – “Writing Living History” with DAVE ZIRIN, Sports Editor-in-Chief The nation, author of 11 books, including The Kaepernick effect: kneeling, changing the world
Tuesday October 19 – “The Life of an Activist Writer” with award-winning V (formerly Eve Ensler), Tony and Obie, New York Times successful playwright (“Les monologues du vagina”, among many other plays)
Tuesday October 26 – “Writing Your Autobiography” with NOBUKO MIYAMOTO, author of Not Yo ‘Butterfly: My Long Song of Relocation, Race, Love and Revolution
Tuesday November 2— “Being A Journalist” with ALAN LIGHT, one of America’s greatest music journalists. The former editor-in-chief of Atmosphere and Twirl magazines and a former senior editor at Rolling stone, Alan is the co-host of “Debatable”, a daily musical talk show on SiriusXM
Tuesday, November 9 – “Writing on Manhood From the Inside Out” with DARNELL L. MOORE, author of the 2019 Lambda Literary Award winning memoir, No Ashes in the Fire: Free Black Coming of Age in America
Tue November 16 – “Always Running: The Emotional Value of Memory” with LUIS J. RODRIGUEZ, author of 16 books in all genres, including the bestseller memoir, Still Running, La Vida Loca, Gang Days in LA
Tuesday, November 23— “A Conversation with Nikki Giovanni” with NIKKI GIOVANNI, one of America’s greatest and most beloved poets
Tuesday, November 30— “Writing, Art, Love, and Revolution” with MILDRED RUIZ SAPP & STEVEN SAPP, founders and artistic directors of UNIVERSES, a national color theater company dedicated to creation, development, production, touring , community engagement and education dissemination of new theatrical and performative works for stage and screen
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ABOUT KEVIN POWELL
Kevin Powell is one of America’s most famous political, cultural, literary and hip-hop voices. He is a poet, journalist, essayist, blogger, filmmaker, lecturer, civil and human rights activist, and author of 14 books, the most recent of which, When we free the world, a collection of essays and a poem on America’s present and future (paperback and ebook on Amazon and Amazon Kindle and ebook and audiobook on Apple Books). Kevin’s next two books will be a collection of poetry (his third) and a biography of Tupac Shakur. He also directs, writes and produces his first documentary film, also titled When we free the world, on fathers and sons, on healthy virility versus toxic virility. Kevin’s work has appeared in numerous publications for over 30 years, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Ebony, Complex, Atmosphere, E
