Stories and Poetry of Witness, Recounting, and Resistance A Generative Workshop with Odilia Galván Rodríguez

The public is invited to the 15th Annual Rio Grande Valley International Poetry Festival on
Apr. 28—May 1, 2021

Saturday, April 30 @ 11 a.m. ~ Decolonizing Our Writing ~

Stories and Poetry of Witness, Recounting, and Resistance
A Generative Workshop with Odilia Galván Rodríguez – a VIPF Virtual Event

In working towards decolonizing our writing, we must witness how our voices were stifled and or silenced over our lifetime. In and of themselves, these acts of silencing and erasure are traumatic events that happened to us personally and our family and community members. Even when we’ve censored ourselves or chose not to use our native tongues out of shame or fear of retribution, that too is the effect of colonization.
In this workshop, through free writing, we will explore ways to reincorporate our ways of speaking, telling stories, code-switching, and writing in the languages of our ancestors. We may have lost some of our indigenous languages; however, we may begin to remember them by writing freely without worrying about the audience or the gatekeepers.
Odilia Galván Rodríguez, poet, writer, editor-publisher, and activist, is the author of six volumes of poetry. Her latest book from FlowerSong Press is The Color of Light ~ Poems to the Mexica and Orisha Energies. She is also a co-editor, along with the late Francisco X. Alarcón, of the award-winning anthology Poetry of Resistance: Voices for Social Justice, The University of Arizona Press. She is the editor-in-chief and publisher at Prickly Pear Publishing & Nopalli Press. Additionally, she has worked as the editor for several magazines, including Tricontinental Magazine in Havana, Cuba, Switchgrass Review, Corpus Christi, and online – Cloud Women’s Quarterly Journal and Anacua Literary Arts Journal.
Register here: Hi there,
You are invited to a Zoom webinar.
When: Apr 30, 2022 11:00 AM Central Time (US and Canada)
Topic: ~ Decolonizing Our Writing ~
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