PSNY Virtual Workshop: A Poetry of Witness

With poet Kwame Opoku-Duku!

In this workshop, we will explore how poetry can act as a form of witness—of the self, of spiritual inquiry, and of our relationship with the Earth. Inspired by poets like Jericho Brown, Kwame Dawes, and Hala Alyan, we will write poems that bear witness to personal and collective histories, social justice struggles, and environmental crises. We’ll look at how language, imagery, and voice can become tools to document both the intimate and the universal. Participants will write poems that reclaim and expand traditional forms, allowing space for personal narratives to connect with larger ecological and social themes.

About the Instructor: Born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Kwame Opoku-Duku is a Ghanaian-American poet and fiction writer. His work is featured in numerous publications, including The Atlantic, The Nation, POETRY, The Rumpus, The Yale Review, and The American Poetry Review.

* *This workshop will take place on Zoom.**

Host or Publisher The Poetry Society of New York