Online Workshop - Poetry & Screenwriting Walk Into A Café

A generative poetry workshop with NOVA CYPRESS BLACK inviting participants to breathe life into archival materials from Black gender expansive trailblazers. How can collaborating with the past help us write ourselves into the future?

About NOVA:
NOVA CYPRESS BLACK (dey/dem/NOVA) writes deir name in all caps as a reminder to take up space as a disabled Black trans gender-expansive storyteller. Deir unruly pen has been supported by Brooklyn Poets, Trans Poetics Archive, Velvetpark Media, Unicorn Authors Club; Tin House; Cave Canem; The Poetry Project; Poets House; the Black Trans Ethical World(un)making Lab; & deir Grammy’s Mississippi spirit. NOVA’s poetry has graced the pages of The Black Ordinary; Strange Horizons, Fifth Wheel Press; among others. Dey were also a Staff Writer on season 3 of Showtime’s The ​L Word: Generation Q & a 2022 GLAAD List Honoree. This genre-defying writer & memory worker pledges allegiance to liberation & pleasure. Dey are currently the Founding Steward of THE BLACK TRANS GAZE GUIDE, a forthcoming digital archive of global cinema by Black trans filmmakers. www.novacypressblack.com