“The writing feels chaotic, intentionally so, but harnesses a controlled momentum that forces the reader to sit still and reckon with the irreconcilable.”
–Benjamin Hertwig
Upcoming Readings & Workshops
March 06 2025, Denver CO @ The Cookie Factory, Writing in Color meetup, 6:00–7:30 PM
Join us for a special Writing in Color meetup at The Cookie Factory, a local gallery space that collaborates with internationally renowned artists to create new, site-specific works inspired by Denver and Colorado's landscapes and cultural fabric.April 9, 2025, Colorado Springs, CO @ United States Air Force Academy, Guest Lecture: Poetry as a Tool for Deciphering Complex Situations
April 20 – May 11, 2025, Denver CO @ Lighthouse Writers Workshop or Zoom (Hybrid), 4-Week Writing in Color Series: Erasure as Healing for the Soul, 6:30-8:30 PM
This class invites writers of color to explore erasure poetry—the practice of creating new work by selectively removing or obscuring text from existing sources—as a creative and spiritual practice of reclamation. Through the act of erasure poetry, participants will have an opportunity to reflect on their lives and use the written word to start reclaiming their personhood and identity in an increasingly oppressive society. Together, we'll transform inherited, imposed, or traumatic texts—legal, religious, bureaucratic, familial—into works of beauty and agency. Using community discussion and weekly exercises, we'll create a space where language that was once silenced can instead speak toward restoration.
Open to writers of color at all experience levels. No previous poetry or erasure experience required.
Date: TBD, Colchester, UK @ University of Essex — TEDx University of Essex,
