Poetry Workshop: AIDS, Archive Anarchy: Using Archive and Disrupting Timelines.

What does it mean to archive something or box something up? How do we do this in our own writing and expressions?What does it mean to unbox something or someone? Explore these ideas through close readings of poems from poets who lived with HIV/AIDS and discuss how HIV/AIDS affects all of us with writer-in-residence, Dare Williams. Dare will lead us through a workshop that encourages us to engage with our personal "archive" and express what we discover through poetry. Writers of all experience levels welcome!

We are thrilled to partner with RISE for this free community event!

While this is a free event, please RSVP so we can prepare accordingly.

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

About the Artist:

Dare Williams is a Queer HIV-positive poet, facilitator and literary worker rooted in Southern California. He has received support/fellowships for his work from Brooklyn Poets, Breadloaf, Tin House, and Vermont Studio Center. He has been awarded a California Arts Council Performance Grant, and a Peter Taylor Teaching Fellowship from The Kenyon Writers Workshop. His work has been featured in Kenyon Review, Foglifter, Poetry Northwest, and elsewhere. He is an associate poetry editor at Hooligan Magazine and received his MFA from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.