Únete a nosotros en Speak Up, talleres de escritura creativa para después de la escuela, impartidos por artistas de enseñanza experimentados y reconocidos a nivel nacional en el Koubek Center del MDC los lunes de 4 a 7 p.m. El enfoque de estos talleres es cultivar el proceso de escritura creativa en spoken word y poesía de performance, desde el borrador hasta la presentación, la publicación y las competencias de slam, para empoderar a los participantes, equiparlos para el éxito y construir una comunidad literaria duradera en el sur de Florida.

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Choose Your Own Adventure: Poetry Edition
with Local Author Kyandreia Jones

BEWARE and WARNING! This workshop is different from other workshops. You and you alone are in charge of what happens in this two hour writing session. What is a choice? What makes choices important, interesting, right or complicated? To what extent, have choices, whether your own or others, shaped who you are today? In this workshop, led by local author Kyandreia Jones (Choose Your Own Adventure SPIES: James Armistead Lafayette®), you will have an opportunity to write poetry that celebrates the most important feature of a Choose Your Own Adventure book: the choices! You will create 2-3 poems that discuss the act of choosing between one or more possibilities in a compelling, powerful and exciting way. There will be three options and you can choose the order in which you write your poems. You may decide to write a narrative poem that ends with a choice, a poem made completely of choices, and/or a freestyle poem that takes on the theme of “choice”. You must be creative, quick and bold to successfully master this exercise, but never fear; Kyandreia is happy to support your adventure in any way that you need. Be sure to have fun and get excited because your hard work just might inspire you to take on the mysterious Open Mic!

Kyandreia Jones is a Posse Miami Scholar and Graduate from Hamilton College where she received her B.A. in Creative Writing. She was born and raised in South Florida. When she thinks of home she likes to muse that she is in a “sunshine state of mind”. Jones’ poetry and prose has been published in various college literary publications and magazines such as Red Weather, Grasping Roots, The Black List Journal y The Underground. Opportunities like having her first short story “At Home” published by Living Spring Publishers in Stories Through the Ages, College Edition 2017 inspired Jones to take her writing to new heights. In May 2019, Chooseco published Jones’ first book Choose Your Own Adventure SPIES: James Armistead Lafayette. Jones is currently working on her second book in the SPIES series which is set to release in the Fall 2020. Working for Choose Your Own Adventure has been the highlight of Jones’ career and she cannot wait to see what other adventures await her as a writer, visiting author and public speaker! Jones values reading, writing, laughing, and promoting universal kindness.

La facilitadora principal del taller es Cecily Schuler, una reconocida poeta local.

Cecily Schuler es una escritora y artista de spoken word *genderqueer*, criada y radicada en el sur de Florida. Su obra aparece en Jai Alai Magazine, Winter Tangerine, the Offing, great weather for MEDIA y otros lugares. Cecily obtuvo su Maestría en Escritura en el Pratt Institute en Brooklyn, NY, y participó en residencias en Breadloaf Writers’ Conference, The Home School: Miami y Vermont Studio Center. Es la Campeona Individual de Vox Pop Slam 2016, ha representado y entrenado equipos en Seattle y la ciudad de Nueva York, y es la ganadora del Slam online inaugural del Mes Nacional de la Poesía (2018). Becaria de Brooklyn Poets en 2017, Cecily está trabajando actualmente en una memoria poética experimental de larga duración.