4 Wednesdays: July 9, 16, 23, 30, 2025
7:00 – 9:00 p.m. (2 hours) / In-Person, MDC Wolfson Campus

Precios a tu manera: Para asegurar que estos talleres especiales facilitados por nuestro Becarios de Escritores Emergentes para que sean lo más accesibles posible para la mayor audiencia posible, ponemos en tus manos la decisión de pagar lo que puedas por este taller. Elige un precio de boleto, que oscila entre $25 y $100, según lo que sientas adecuado.

How can a poem bear witness? What stories emerge from redacted text, family photographs, medical records, government forms? Documentary poetry offers us tools to question, reframe, and intervene in the records that shape our lives. In this generative workshop, we’ll explore strategies for engaging archival, institutional, and personal material, drawing inspiration from the work of M. NourbeSe Philip, Robin Coste Lewis, and Dolores Dorantes. Together, we’ll consider the stakes of our interventions alongside themes of appropriation, erasure, and polyvocality.

Participants will practice activating documents of their choice and ask: What happens when the poet becomes an archivist—or an interrogator? Writers of all levels are welcome.

Becas disponibles para estudiantes del MDC

Miami Book Fair is offering two (2) full-tuition scholarships for MDC students interested in attending the above-listed creative writing workshop. Applicants must be currently-enrolled, (full time or part time) degree-seeking Miami Dade College students with a demonstrated financial need. Deadline to apply is two weeks before the first class.

Click here to apply: https://mdc.formstack.com/forms/mdc_student_scholarship_application

Simone Zapata, this year’s Poetry Fellow, is a writer, editor, and educator from San José, California. Her recent work appears in Ejército de diletantes, Beloit Poetry Journal, y Revista Literaria Brink. Ha recibido becas y apoyos de Community of Writers, Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, Banff Centre y California Institute of the Arts, donde obtuvo una maestría en escritura creativa (MFA). Su mentora,