Join Graywolf Press and Penumbra for Essential Conversations: Building a Better Twin Cities through Poetry and Storytelling, the first event in Graywolf’s new Essential Conversations virtual event series.
Join us for an evening of reflection and conversation as Sarah Bellamy (artistic director for Penumbra and a racial equity facilitator and practitioner of racial healing), Heid E. Erdrich (poet, educator, and editor of New Poets of Native Nations), Roy Guzmán (poet, scholar, and author of Catrachos) and Daniel Alexander Jones (performance artist, playwright, director, essayist, and educator) engage one another in dialogue about the ways art and literature function in healing, imagining, and building a better Twin Cities both personally and in community. This dialogue will be centered on three key questions asked of the group in turn, and we encourage you to join us in gathering your own thoughts on these questions in advance:
How can storytelling and poetry help our communities heal?
Whose stories are represented, who gets to tell them, and to whom?
How are you as an artist being called to your work differently right now?
This event is free and open to the public and will be broadcast live via Zoom Webinar. Click here to register.
To contribute to the conversation, please submit your questions for the presenters in advance at wolves@graywolfpress.org, or plan to submit your questions via Zoom during the live event.
After the event, attendees are encouraged to continue the conversation in their own spaces with family, friends, colleagues, and others. Graywolf and Penumbra will provide a Talkback Toolkit to all registered attendees following the event to help facilitate these additional conversations, which will include the event recording, additional discussion questions, further reading lists, and more, and are designed for a wide variety of groups from book clubs to classrooms to office luncheons.