Storyteller and poet Chantel Massey will lead a two-part online poetry workshop on the poetry of Audre Lorde for The School for Black Feminist Politics.

Join us for a two-part online poetry workshop for the School for Black Feminist Politics! Led by storyteller and poet, Chantel Massey, the teach-in, “Anger, Power, and Pleasure: The Poetry of Audre Lorde” will be held on Zoom on the following dates and times:

Wednesday, November 9th | 6:30-8:00 PM EST
Saturday, November 12th | 1:30-3:00 PM EST

If you are interested in participating, you must fill out this Google Form and we will confirm your participation, and send you a Zoom link upon participant confirmation.

Please note: There is a 20 participant limit. Participation in the workshop is based on a first-come, first served basis and is based on your availability to participate in both workshops.

About the teach-in: A two-part online poetry workshop led by Chantel Massey, this workshop explores anger and pleasure looking at the essays and poems of Audre Lorde. We will then write, discuss, and answer the questions: What new practices do we need to have individually and as a community to make more space and use of our anger? How can we better create experiences of pleasure for ourselves?

About Chantel Massey: Chantel Massey (she/her) is a storyteller, poet, author, teaching artist, organizer, educator, practicing Afrofuturist, and avid anime lover from Indiana. Massey is a fellow of The Watering Hole, VONA poetry resident, and has received invites from Brooklyn Poets, Hurston/Wright Foundation, and Tin House. She is a Best of Net Award nominee and 2020 Indiana Eugene and Marilyn Glick Author Awards Emerging Author finalist for her first collection of poetry, Bursting At The Seams (VK Press, 2018), a Midwest Black girl coming of age story. Massey founded the literary arts organization, UnLearn Arts, radically dedicated to amplifying and cultivating the craft and wellness of BIPOC writers in the Midwest and elsewhere.

Massey's work advocates for wellness, human rights, and social justice. She explores their depth with confessional poetry through themes of Blackness, identity, Afrofuturism, memory/archive, familial relationships, the process and act of giving up self- betrayal, and the riot of Black joy. Massey is on a life-long mission, through poetry and the transformative power of storytelling, to make the pursuit and vision of what has not yet been, irresistible, to inspire curiosity, and challenge how we engage with the world. Her work can be found featured in IndianapolisReview, Turnpike Magazine, and other online and print publications coming elsewhere. She is a 2022 Art & Soul, an annual celebration of Black artist and creativity, Featured Artist, focusing on the theme of Black health & wellness, and a recipient of the Arts Council of Indianapolis' 2022 Beckmann Emerging Artist Fellowship Award, 2021 Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing Poetry & Author Fellowship Award, a Central Indiana Community Foundation (CICF) 2021 Artist Ambassador grant recipient, and the 2020 Indiana Writers Center Mari Evans grant award recipient.

Upcoming Teach-Ins: "Anger, Pleasure & Power - The Poetry of Audre Lorde": A Two-Part Poetry Workshop by Chantel Massey