This political education and poetry writing workshop strives to encourage an understanding of poetic expression as a vehicle for voice/action – for the imparting of perspective, the sharing of knowledge, the transmission of feeling, the disruption of power, the cultivation of community. Workshop participants (ages 13-18) will practice responding to social and political issues with poetry as a means of realizing their freedom dreams for a just and liberated world today.
About Cortland Gilliam
Cortland Gilliam (he/him) is a poet, educator, scholar and cultural organizer based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. While he has come to consider many places home growing up in a military family, attending the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for his B.A. in Economics in 2010 and again for his Ph.D. in Education in 2016 has deepened his ties and commitments to the Chapel Hill community, to the home state of the past five generations of his family, and to the U.S. South more broadly.
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