We, Too, Can Make It Led By Peggy Robles-Alvarado

Tuesday, April 5th, 2022 | 7 PM ET - 8:30 PM ET

Tuition | $0.00

Capacity: 20 Storytellers

The Nuyorican Poetry Movement valued and set in verse the experiential learning of working class people who redefined resiliency in the face of poverty, marginalization, trauma and discrimination. In this generative writing session led by Peggy Robles-Alvarado, poets will center the work of Elisabet Velasquez from her debut young adult novel-in-verse When We Make It and set it in conversation with other Nuyorican poets. We will create a space for writers to generate new works that celebrate and affirm their existence while proving that they too can make it.

About the Faculty:

Peggy Robles-Alvarado is a Jerome Hill Foundation Fellow in Literature, a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, and a 2020 Atticus Review Poetry Contest winner. She is also a BRIO award winner with fellowships from CantoMundo, Desert Nights Rising Stars, The Frost Place, Nalac Leadership Institute, Communitas America, and VONA. She’s a three-time International Latino Book Award winner who authored Conversations With My Skin (2011), and Homage To The Warrior Women (2012). With advanced degrees in education and an MFA in Performance Studies this initiated priestess in Lukumi and Palo uses poetry to create literary events that center intergenerational communal healing, literacy and equity. Through Robleswrites Productions Inc., Peggy created Lalibreta.online (2021), The Abuela Stories Project (2016), and Mujeres, The Magic, The Movement, and The Muse (2017). Her work has been featured on HBO Habla Women, Lincoln Center, Smithsonian Institute, Pen America, and Pregones Theater. Her poetry appears online in Poets.org, Tribes.org, The Quarry at Split This Rock, The Common, 92Y.org, Centro Voices, and NACLA.org. Peggy has also been published in several anthologies including The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext (2020), and What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of Trump (2019). For more please visit Robleswrites.com.

Partial and full scholarships are available. Email scholarship inquiries to Info@RootsWoundsWords.org. Explicitly state the scholarship (partial or full) you’re interested in.

Like all RWW offerings, this space is for Black, Indigenous, Latinx/e, Asian, and other Storytellers of Color only. BIPOC Storytellers are centered here, exclusively.