Mapping your way into the Future- with Elizabeth Kerlikowske, Read Desc.!

Schedule

Mon Jan 05 2026 at 06:00 pm to 07:30 pm

UTC-05:00

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Kalamazoo Nonprofit Advocacy Coalition | Kalamazoo, MI

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Explore your past and future through writing and mark-making. Two-part workshop with materials provided. Learn something new about yourself.
About this Event

Elizabeth Kerlikowske facilitates a 2- part poetry workshop in partnership with The Kalamazoo Poetry Festival. This workshop is free of charge.

This is a 2-part workshop, please do not sign up unless you can make both dates! Please add both of these dates to your personal calendars.

January 5, 6-7:30pm

January 12, 6-7:30pm

Description:

Recognizing and placing significant moments helps us to see our past and plan our future. This workshop involves writing and basic mark-making. The second half builds on the first. Materials provided. Expect to learn something new about yourself.

Bio:

Elizabeth Kerlikowske is the author of four full-length books and eleven chapbooks. Her poems appeared most recently in Cereal City Review, New Verse News, New World Writing, and Dunes Review. She was awarded the Kalamazoo Community Medal for the Arts in 2017 and currently teaches Ekphrastic Writing at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts.


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Kalamazoo Nonprofit Advocacy Coalition, 315 West Michigan Avenue, Kalamazoo, United States

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