During a time when the world feels heavy, this workshop is an offering and an invitation.

Workshop Description

In this 100-minute generative poetry workshop for poets of color, we will gather in community to read and write poems that reach toward light, imagined worlds, community, tenderness, and love. The kind of poems that remind us of the power of words to transmute.

We will spend time with poems by Danez Smith, allowing ourselves to receive insights and inspiration to write our own.

The session will open with a gratitude practice before moving into close reading, craft conversation, and generative writing. Participants will write at least two poems during the session and have the chance to share in the company of community.

During a time when the world feels heavy, this workshop is an offering and in invitation to come as you are.

Session Details

When: Friday, April 3. 2026 at 7:00pm CDT (8:00pm EDT)

Where: Live on Zoom (session will not be recorded)

Who: BIPOC / Poets of Color (all levels welcome)

NOTE: The workshop Zoom link will go out initially on Wednesday. And I will resend the link on Friday to all registrants shortly after the registration deadline.

Pricing and Registration

Price: $25

Registration is live until 12pm CDT on Friday, April 3rd. Earlier registration is encouraged.

Register now at this link here

Scholarships for Black Trans Folk

A limited number of full scholarships are available for Black trans poets and writers. Applications will be accepted through Tuesday, March 31st at 5pm CDT. 

Apply for a scholarship at this link here

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Past Workshops

Join us for a generative poetry workshop to close out the year in community with BIPOC women, femme-identified trans, and nonbinary poets of all levels.

Workshop Description

In this generative workshop, participants will write new poetry and engage with contemporary poetry and photography that delve into the realms of the self, memory, and ritual. We will enter new doorways and reimagine our understandings of the past, present, and future.

Together, we’ll consider how ritual grounds us, creates sanctuaries, invokes spirit and the sun, makes space for devotion, breaks us into something new, and more.

Fun Fact: The workshop starts on a New Moon! Perfect timing to write into new energy and intention.

Session Details

Dates: Thursdays, Nov 20 – Dec 18 (4 weekly sessions)

Times: 5:30 pm–7:30 pm CST (6:30-8:30 pm EST)

Where: Live on Zoom (sessions will not be recorded)

Who: BIPOC women, femme-identified trans, and nonbinary poets

NOTE: No workshop on Thursday, Nov 27 due to Thanksgiving

Pricing and Registration

Early Bird Price: $225 through Monday, October 27th at 11:59PM CST

Regular Price: $275 starting Tuesday, October 28th

Only 12 spots available. Registration closes on Monday, November 10th, or sooner if all spots are claimed.

Bonus

Register by Oct 17 to receive a bonus packet of prompts and inspiration texts delivered a week before class begins!

Refund Policy

Due to the nature of this offering and limited space, all sales are final and no refunds will be offered.

If you can no longer attend, your seat may be transferred to another participant or applied as credit toward a future workshop. Please get in touch with me directly to make arrangements.

Contact Email: info@bynadiaalexis.com

About Me

Nadia Alexis is a poet, writer, and photographer in Harlem to Haitian immigrants. She is the author of the hybrid debut collection, Beyond the Watershed (CavanKerry Press), which was longlisted for the 2025 Maya Angelou Book Award, and a 2022 finalist for the Ghost Peach Press Prize in Poetry, among others. She has also been named one of Poets & Writers Magazine’s 2026 Ten Best Debut Poets for her debut collection.

Her writing and photography have been published widely, and she has received honors including a Literary Arts Fellowship and two Artist Mini-Grants from the Mississippi Arts Commission, a Mississippi STAR Teacher Award, a Vance Fellowship from the Natchez Literary and Cinema Celebration, the Poet of the Year Honoree of the Haitian Creatives Digital Awards, a semifinalist in the 92Y Discovery Poetry Contest, a Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters photography award nomination, and a honorable mention poetry prize from the Hurston/Wright College Writers Award.

Nadia's photography has been exhibited in several shows in the U.S., Cuba, and virtually at the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI). A fellow of the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, The Watering Hole, and the Poets & Writers Get the Word Out Publicity Incubator, she holds a PhD and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Mississippi. She lives in Mississippi.

Previous Student Workshop Testimonials

“Thank you again for your guidance in the workshop. It filled my soul in a way I didn’t know I needed.”

“The prompts challenged my creative side that had been laying in slumber due to the busyness of life.”

“Thank you again for such an inspiring class and the wonderful and welcoming space you created for us. I really enjoyed how you structured the discussion and engaged with us, both with the gentleness to nudge and let us be.

I especially appreciated the prompts and the choices of photos and poetry to facilitate our discussion, the overall theme, and our creations - plus the resources! SO much gratitude to you and the class."