Speaking Poetry to Power: Surviving Something is a workshop about navigating what we’ve survived. What has always been true and is becoming more and more amplified these days is that we’re all surviving something. From generational trauma to institutional brutality, we’re in a cultural moment of confronting that which needs to be called out into the open, examined and ultimately healed. Facilitated by Nikki Patin, Founder/Executive Producer of Surviving the Mic and Community Engagement Director for the Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation, in collaboration with The Voices and Faces Project. This workshop will explore the writing of survivors of sexual violence, as well as works from Melissa Harris-Perry, Assata Shakur and local Chicago writers that inspire us to write our own pieces exploring the power, beauty and necessity of both resilience and resistance.

Part of the Printers Row Lit Fest, located on South Dearborn Street, from Ida B. Wells to Polk Street.