Poetry Writing  and Performance Workshops

Presented by the Spoken Word Club

Poetry Writing Workshop

March 27, 2025

12:00 PM – 2:00 PM

Sage Hall Room 100D

Guest Presenter: Jasmine Reid

Jasmine Reid is a trans: Atlantic poet for the people. She is the author of Interlocutor Goddess (Autumn House Press, Forthcoming), winner of the 2024 CAAPP Book Prize, selected by Aracelis Girmay, and Deus Ex Nigrum (Honeysuckle Press, 2020). An MFA graduate of Cornell University and recipient of fellowships from Cave Canem, The Jerome Foundation, and Poets House, her work has been published or is forthcoming in The Poetry Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Kenyon Review, and The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, among others. Jasmine was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, and is currently based in Brooklyn, New York, where she is an assistant professor at New York University.

Performance Workshop 

April  3, 2025

12:00 PM – 2:00 PM

Sage Hall 100D

Guest Presenter: Prometheus Br’er

Prometheus Br’er–is an organizer and interdisciplinary writer from the Bronx, New York. All of his work springs from the same core values: fearless truth and loyalty to the working class. He asks how the activism of Black radicals of the 19th and 20th centuries constitutes what he calls “blues pedagogy.” Whether in his academic writing, or in his forthcoming poetry book, he is interested in the way Black cultural education is the key to revolution in the United States. He will research this topic as he pursues his Phd in Black studies.

For further information, contact:

Jan Robertson, Staff Advisor: janet.robertson@bcc.cuny.edu

or Nasiyah Walton: nasiyah.walton@stu.bcc.cuny.edu