Poetry Workshop Series - Elvis Alves

Join us at Flatbush Library for a three-part poetry workshop series. Each session will be taught by a different local poet, providing participants with a range of perspectives. Through generative writing exercises participants will experiment with style and form. Poets are encouraged but not required to attend all three sessions. The workshop will culminate in a reading where participants can share what they have written in the workshops. Space is limited, first come first serve. Registration is required.

Elvis Alves (www.elvisalves.com) was born in Guyana and raised in Brooklyn, NY. He is a graduate of Colgate University and Princeton Theological Seminary. His work has appeared in several journals and magazines including Poetry Magazine, Sojourners, Transition, Caribbean Writer Journal, and The Applicant. Elvis is a Pushcart Prize nominated poet. He is the author of Bitter Melon (2013), Ota Benga (2017), I Am No Battlefield But A Forest Of Trees Growing (winner of the Jacopone da Todi Poetry Book Prize) (2018), Black/White: We Are Not Panic (Pandemic) Free (2020), Blackfish (2022), and This Is What I Know (2023). His latest book is Exile Is Home (2025). In 2025, he was a finalist for the Poetic Justice Institute Editor's Prize (Fordham University).

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