workshops & talks
Make language your playground.
What I Offer
Age-responsive, generative sessions for middle-schoolers through adults. Experiment with languages, translation as method, and form as playground. Workshops become meeting points: between languages, between ages, between what you meant to say and what the poem teaches you to hear. Here, discovery matters more than polish — the joy is in the making. Writers leave with pages that sound more like themselves — alive in the language(s) they love.
Workshops: from 1-2 hour intensives to multi-week labs exploring craft, hybridity and voice.
Talks & Keynotes: poetics of place, hybrid identity and belonging, sustainable writing practices, finding your voice.
Guest Lectures & Residencies: tailored sessions for classrooms, collectivesand community spaces.
a space for:
Writers who are emerging, returning or refining their next book · Manuscript builders · Hybrid makers · Translators & code-switchers · Teaching artists & editors · Interdisciplinary artists
Approach
Each workshop begins with curiosity: What happens when we translate not just across language, but across experience, discipline, and form? Together, we build bridges — between page and performance, silence and sound, legacy and invention.
Workshops are interactive, multilingual-friendly and generative — designed to meet writers where they are and help them move toward work that feels true to them, experimental and alive.
past workshops
Radiant Wound Poetry Workshop (in-person)
When: Monday, May 21, 2025
Description: A Middle School poetry workshop that explores identity and belonging through animal poetry, inspired by my Abidjan Zoo Series.
For further details or to register, click here.
Poetics of Place (1-hour online workshop)
When: Tuesday, April 8, 2025
Time: 2:00pm PST
Description: In this dynamic 60-minute workshop, discover how to create environmental resonance and transform place into persona. Learn techniques for elevating everyday settings into powerful poetic elements, from traditional forms like the haibun, ghazal and zuihitsu to contemporary innovations by torrin a. greathouse, Danez Smith and Diana Khoi Nguyen. Perfect for writers looking to deepen their connection to place through both traditional and invented poetic forms.
For further details or to register, click here.

