Literary Art
Writing Your Cultural Heritage Poem ~ Workshop with Shonda Buchanan
Find yourself in verse as you explore your cultural heritage during this poetry workshop facilitated by award winning author and poet, Shonda Buchanan.
All materials are provided. Cost is $25.00 per person.
Award-winning educator and memoirist, Shonda Buchanan, is the author of Black Indian, chosen by PBS NewsHour as a “Top 20 books to read” to learn about institutional racism. Her newest book of poems, The Lost Songs of Nina Simone, explores the life of the lauded Civil Rights icon, singer, pianist and composer.
An Associate Professor in the Department of English at Western Michigan University, Shonda’s forthcoming collection of essays, Children of the Mixed Blood Trail, explores the hidden tapestry of Free People of Color migration from the Southeast to the Midwest, specifically in Kalamazoo, Michigan, where she was born and raised. Shonda is currently writing a collection of poems and essays about growing up in Kalamazoo, Michigan, a Black Lives Matter book of poetry, "America’s Bloodflowers: Poems," as well as "Artificial Earth: Poems and Essays," a book about the first mixed-race “settlers” of Los Angeles and California Indians. For more information, visit www.shondabuchanan.com.
