In celebration of National Poetry Month and in partnership with Scalawag Magazine, join us for a collective writing moment to recognize and hold space for our grief through poetry, led by poet, Amanda Furdge. Participants should bring their own lunch.

Explore ways to creatively use what you have to develop personal recipes for (self) preservation in the wake of emotional grief. Together we’ll go ‘grocery shopping,’ borrowing from rich Southern culinary traditions. The end result will be lists, recipes, and poetic meals that can nourish our hearts and souls. 

This event is free and open to the public.

Amanda Furdge (Shelby) is a God fearing and God full Black Mississippian organizer, revolutionary, and cultural worker. At thirty-five years old, she is a leading figure in the universal Black Arts Movement and has written, published, and contributed to countless creative expressions of her own as well as many others across the globe. Amanda considers her most noteworthy accomplishments to be found within the eyes, smiles, ideas and attitudes of her three beloved sons Titan, Mega and Seven. Nothing is more valuable, liberating or empowering to Amanda than love.