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I’m With the Banned—Celebrating & Exercising Our Freedom to Read & Write

$99.00

Dates: Any
Format: Independent Study (more info)

In honor of Banned Books Week, October 1-7 take 10% off by entering the promotional code FREEDOM at checkout.

The list of banned poets reads like a “Who’s Who of Poetry”: Anna Akhmatova, Walt Whitman, Allen Ginsberg, Federico García Lorca, Gwendolyn Brooks, Luis Valdes, Charles Baudelaire, and, yes, even Shel Silverstein.

In this four-module self-paced workshop, you’ll read them all! Focusing on craft techniques that foster expression—the long line, repetition, vivid imagery, and the power of reading aloud—you’ll exercise your right to write, creating poems that honor the giants on whose shoulders we stand: men and women who refused to be silenced.

Shortly after you register, you will receive an email containing an invitation to create an account and begin learning. Note: This class does not include feedback or interaction with the instructor or other learners, and is accessible for thirty days. If more time is needed, just contact us.

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Teaching Artist

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Kim Noriega

Kim was born in Cleveland, Ohio, where she loved apple trees in the spring, Hungarian nut roll at Christmas, the Lorain-Carnegie Bridge at dawn, and the West Side Market at 5:00 AM–when the Eastern European nagymamákshopped for the day’s meals, babushkas tied neatly beneath their chins. She moved to Southern California in her late 20’s (more or less on a dare) where she’s learned to love the subtle seasons, making salmon tamales at Christmas, and taking long beach walks in February.

She is the author of the book, Name Me,published by Fortunate Daughter Press, the title poem of which was a finalist for the Joy Harjo Prize in Poetry. Her poem, “Heaven, 1963″ was featured by former Poet Laureate, Ted Kooser, in his nationally syndicated column, American Life in Poetry. She was a finalist for the 2016 Edna St. Vincent Millay Poetry Prize and the winner of the San Miguel Literary Sala’s 2017 Flash Nonfiction Prize.

Kim teaches writing to all ages in recovery homes and public libraries–most recently in conjunction with the Kids! San Diego Poetry Annual, Garden Oak Press, 2017.

She lives in San Diego with her husband, Ernie, and their daughter, Leiha, where she heads San Diego Public Library’s family literacy program. She was a finalist in 2017 for the Toyota National Family Teacher of the Year Award.

 

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