True Crime Poetry: Activating Awareness

online event; open to mentors, mentees, and program alumni across all programs

We’re kicking off our program year by exploring the potential for poetry to act as a tool for social justice and activism in the context of true crime, writing with intention to honor the victims. Cynthia Pelayo’s Bram Stoker and Elgin Award nominated collection of poems, Into the Forest and All the Way Through, which explores the epidemic of missing and murdered women in the United States, serves as a guide for participants in creating their own poems to move and activate readers. Come explore how poetic devices can support your emotion and imagination in service to a greater good. CW/TW: violence against women-identifying individuals