Spend a morning nurturing your creativity and finding your voice with Capital Region-based poet Danielle Colin. This free, hands-on poetry workshop welcomes adults and high school and college students of all experience levels. Space is limited, so registration is required.
IMPORTANT EVENT INFORMATION:
- This workshop takes place in The Mount’s Stable Auditorium, a climate-controlled auditorium and classroom adjacent to the Main Parking Lot.
- Recommended for adults and teens.
- Accessible seating is available. To discuss arrangements, please get in touch with us by phone: 413-551-5111 x5; or email: programs@edithwharton.org. For more information about accessibility, review The Mount’s accessibility webpage.
- Questions? Email: wyehle@wordXwordfestival.com
A Note from WordXWord About Content: WordXWord offers a safe space for using language to navigate the world. While we do honor a broad definition of poetry, we do not offer a platform for lectures, polemics, screeds, hateful/hurtful attacks on marginalized individuals in our community. Racist, sexist, homophobic, ageist, ableist, or otherwise derogatory language is not welcome at WordXWord events. If any of this is confusing to you, then WordXWord is not the right space to share your work.
D. Colin is a multidisciplinary artist and poet of Haitian descent and the author of Dreaming in Kreyol. Guided by the belief that storytelling holds transformative power, her work explores vulnerability, grief, trauma, healing, and liberation while engaging the intersections of race, class, gender, and her Haitian heritage. She is currently a writer for Metroland Now’s poetry column. A Cave Canem, VONA, and New York State Writers Institute fellow, her poetry appears in journals such as Trolley Literary Journal, The Eco Theo Review, Portrait of New England, and The Porter Gulch Review.
Colin lives in New York’s Capital Region, where she maintains an active studio practice and serves on the boards of Black Dimensions in Art, Inc. and the Hart Cluett Museum. She is a founding member of the Social Justice Artists Collective. A lover of bodies of water and early mornings, she believes creativity is a pathway to healing and collective freedom. Through storytelling, we remember our connection to one another and imagine more liberated futures.
