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Poetry Fest Workshop: Writing Poems of Protest, Resistance, and Empowerment
This generative workshop will illustrate why poetry is necessary and sought-after during times of crises and change. Through prompts and discussion, we will explore how poetry can offer us not only a place to put the heat but also a place to find rest, renewal and community as we write our way together towards a better future.
Special Notes
- Participants will need to bring paper and writing utensils. This class is free-of-charge, however if you need to drop it, please call (804-353-0094) or email (frontdesk@visarts.org) the front desk ASAP so that we may open up a slot to the waitlist. You will not be charged a drop fee.
About the Instructor
Fairouz Bsharat
Fairouz Bsharat is a Literary Arts major at Appomattox Regional Governor's School and the Virginia Youth Poet Laureate for Chester! She won first place in Fledge’s National Nonfiction Competition and received a Scholastic Gold Medal and American Voices Award. Fairouz has had her work published in Under the Madness Magazine, Virginia Bards Central Review 2022, The American Library Of Poetry 2023 Empowered, UVA’s Writer’s Eye 2025, among other places. To keep up with her work follow her @fairouzpoetry on Instagram.
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Rosa Castellano recently re-located back to Richmond, VA from Vermont. While living in the Green Mountain state, she lead numerous poetry workshops for adults and children and was an active member of the writing community. She spends the bulk of her non-writing time reading (mostly poetry, nonfiction and graphic novels) and adventuring with her husband and four children. She received an MFA in poetry from Virginia Commonwealth University and currently, is the Emerging Artist Resident in Writing for the 2019-2020 year at the Visual Arts Center of Virginia.
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