June 10, 2025 / 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM / via Zoom

Fwa Liv Miami prezante First Draft, yon seri evènman ekriti gratis ak enfòmèl kote kominote, metye, ak kreyativite rapid rankontre nan salon vityèl tematik chak mwa kote ekriven sosyalize, pataje travay yo, epi ale ak bèl istwa.

Theme: Textual Performativity

We’re all familiar with the performance of poetry such as live readings and spoken word, but what does it take for a text to perform itself? How do form, page layout, and rhetorical strategies impact the intention of the poem’s language? This First Draft session will center play and experimentation as we generate our own performative poetry alongside work by Douglas Kearney, Airea D. Matthews, and Layli Long Soldier.

Simone Zapata, our Poetry Fellow for the Emerging Writer Fellowships, is a writer, editor, and educator from San José, California. Her recent work appears in Lame Diletan, Jounal Pwezi Beloit, ak Jounal Literè Brink. Li te resevwa bous detid ak bous rechèch nan Community of Writers, Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, Banff Centre, ak California Institute of the Arts, kote li te jwenn yon MFA nan ekriti kreyatif. Mentor li,