Excavating the Self: Poetics and Memory with Tatiana Johnson-Boria
Sat, Jan 31
|Virtual on Zoom
Unearth the stories that live beneath the surface. In this generative workshop, writers will explore memory, emotion, and truth through guided exercises that help transform buried experiences into powerful new poems.
Time & Location
Jan 31, 2026, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM CST
Virtual on Zoom
About the Event
How can we truly unearth the depths and sensations at the core of our memories to generate new poems? How can we talk about the unspeakable or the things that we have not quite been able to write into.
This workshop will focus on working with writers to find different ways of excavating the self and leaning into the work that can come through this experience. We'll also explore work by writers like Joy Harjo, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Porsha Olaywiola, and others.
TATIANA JOHNSON-BORIA (she/her) is the author of Nocturne in Joy (2023), winner of the 2024 Julia Ward Howe Book Prize in Poetry.
As an educator, artist, facilitator, and mother; she uses her writing practice to dismantle racism, reckon with trauma, cultivate healing, and to explore the complex magic of mothering.
She has received fellowships and awards from Tin House, the Massachusetts Cultural…