What stories live inside your family’s photographs, letters, and records?

This four-session virtual poetry workshop invites you to explore artifacts and archives through the craft of poetry. Poet and community historian Randy Gonzales, author of Settling St. Malo, will guide you in transforming personal and community history into original poems rooted in lived experience.

Using family photographs, oral histories, letters, records, and meaningful objects, you’ll create work that honors heritage while engaging the historical record. Together, we’ll explore how poetry can recover silenced histories, amplify ancestral voices, and hold shared cultural memory. This is an active, generative space grounded in craft, reflection, and dialogue.

You will write.
You will examine history with intention.
You will leave with at least one fully developed poem — and a creative process you can return to again and again.

Limited seats available. First come, first serve.