The Writer’s Shadow: A Process of Self-Permission

Workshop Description
Open to all levels
2 hours
via Zoom

In this class, you will go from feeling stuck in the shadows and invalidated to embracing your freedom and self-expression as an artist. Through guided prompts, you will speak head-on with the enemies of your creative self-worth, name the voices of the monsters that have heretofore kept you from the fullness of your creativity, and from a position of understanding and liberation, explore your vibrant imaginative being. As writers, the very act of writing is what permits us as qualified. Regardless of any external (or internal) conflict. What does life look like when you say yes to yourself? Let's explore.

About the Workshop Series
The BrainTrust is a sliding-scale, affordably priced poetry class!

The Poetry Lab is a community learning space dedicated to mentoring and encouraging poets and writers as they craft their learning journeys. We welcome first-time poets, moms and dads, high school students, MFA holders, architects, and artists of all genres and mediums to attend as long as they are ready to write!

More about the Series:

• Live Online Monthly Classes
• Meet and Work with Writers Just Like You!
• Always Affordably Priced
• Poetry-Focused
• Friendly Instructors, Interactive Sessions

Sliding Scale
Please pay what you can! $8-$32

Find More Online Poetry Classes
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About the Instructor:
Keimahney Carlisle (she/her) is a writer and poet currently based in Philadelphia, originally from California. She earned her B.S. in Business Administration with a minor in Multicultural Leadership Studies. She was a Get Lit-Words Ignite Fellow in the Summer of 2021 and served as an AmeriCorps member with the Educational Nonprofit City Year Philadelphia (’21-’23). Keimahney is passionate about human expression and social advocacy.

Host or Publisher The Poetry Lab