Many Handed Dreaming is a poetry and creative arts workshop intended to center black folks of trans experience in and around Pittsburgh, envisioned and idealized by Black trans writers and artists Xan Phillips & Jasmine Reid.
This is a FREE, two-part workshop, occurring the evenings of Friday & Saturday October 21st & 22nd, from 6pm to 8pm at True T Studios. Pizza and refreshments will be provided by True T.
The event was created in partnership between the Center for African American Poetry
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Many Handed Dreaming is a poetry and creative arts workshop intended to center black folks of trans experience in and around Pittsburgh, envisioned and idealized by Black trans writers and artists Xan Phillips & Jasmine Reid.
This is a FREE, two-part workshop, occurring the evenings of Friday & Saturday October 21st & 22nd, from 6pm to 8pm at True T Studios. Pizza and refreshments will be provided by True T.
The event was created in partnership between the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics (CAAPP) & True T Studio.
About the workshop leaders—
Xan Phillips is a poet and visual artist from rural Ohio. The recipient of a Whiting Award, Lambda Literary award, and the Judith A. Markowitz Award for Emerging Writers, Xan is the author of HULL (Nightboat Books 2019) and Reasons for Smoking, which won the 2016 Seattle Review Chapbook Contest judged by Claudia Rankine. He has received fellowships from Brown University, Callaloo, Cave Canem, the Conversation Literary Festival, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, the Sewanee Writers Conference, and most recently, the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics. Xan’s poetry is featured in Berlin Quarterly Review, BOMB Magazine, Crazyhorse, Gulf Coast, Poets.org, and Virginia Quarterly Review. His paintings have been featured in Kenyon Review, The Poetry Project, the cover of American Poets Magazine, and an AMFM exhibition at the Silver Room in Chicago.
Jasmine Reid is a twice trans poet of flowers. She is the author of Deus Ex Nigrum, winner of the 2018 Honeysuckle Press Chapbook Contest, selected by Danez Smith. An MFA graduate from Cornell University and recipient of fellowships from Poets House and Jack Jones Literary Arts, her work has been published or is forthcoming in The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, Indiana Review, Pinwheel, TriQuarterly, and Washington Square Review, among others. A Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominated poet, Jasmine was born and raised in Baltimore, MD, and is currently based in Brooklyn, NY, where she is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Pratt Institute. Find her at reidjasmine.com
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