Library Offers Writing Workshop To Celebrate International Women’s Day

Press release from the City of Greensboro:

Post Date:02/25/2021 4:00 PM

In celebration of International Women’s Day, Greensboro Public Library is offering Writing the Body, a special online Benjamin Bards workshop from 4-6:30 pm, Monday, March 8. Facilitated by poets Debra Kaufman and Melissa Hassard, Writing the Body deals with how memory, truth, and poetry can move us towards healing.

Debra Kaufman is a poet and playwright who has published seven collections of poetry and several plays. Her newest collection of poems is God Shattered which was published in 2019. Melissa Hassard is a poet and the managing editor Sable Books Hybrid Publishing. She co-edited Red Sky: Poetry on the Global Epidemic of Violence Against Women in 2017.

Writers and non-writers alike are welcome to join the workshop. Interested participants can email Kelsey Nation and receive a link to Writing the Body Workshop.

This press release was produced by the City of Greensboro. The views expressed here are the author’s own.