Playing with Voice: Poetry Workshop Prioritizing Your Voice

Join artist-in-residence, Theresa-Xuan Bui, in this poetry workshop focused on how voice influences what we read and write. We will enjoy poetry readings and discuss the interplay between the performer, the text, and the listeners. Theresa will guide us through writing exercises to engage your own voice. Writers and poets of all experience levels are welcome!

Thank you to the Marion Park Lewis Foundation for the Arts for sponsoring this season's events!

About the Artist:

Theresa-Xuan Bui (b. 1998) is an interdisciplinary poet questioning the complexities of identity, ownership, inclusion, and exclusion within the politics of America as a means to critically imagine the future. At the center of their practice is queerness– a belief that singular narratives are insufficient when every individual holds multitudes. Their work is an act of resistance, a celebration of complexity, and a testament to the power of speaking one’s truth, especially when the narrative is challenging and uncertain. They’re a child of the Bui household, a legacy of Vietnamese refugees and vanguard Asian-Americans. Born and raised in Bronx, NY, Theresa moved to Houston, TX, before pursuing a BFA at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MIC/A).