Dates:

August: 2, 9

Final presentations on Sundays August 10, 17

Location
The Bronx Museum of the Arts

Bobby Gonzalez. Photo credit: Marina Ortiz/ DNAinfo

With nationally known multicultural motivational speaker, storyteller and poet Bobby González

Exploring the differences between performance and other types of poetry in 8 free workshops.

Participants will have the opportunity to write and perform original poetry, finding their own style and delivery under the guidance of González. Through these writing workshops, attendees will learn how to improve word choice and create more powerful imagery in their speaking and writing.

In addition learning  meter and rhyme, participants will explore how to infuse their native tongue and urban colloquial language in their poetry. The culminating event will be a public presentation in which the workshop participants will share their completed works with the community.

FREE and open to everyone!

Workshop meet on Saturdays from 1:00pm -2:30pm

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This event was funded in part by Poets & Writers, Inc., with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.