LA Get Down: Fighting Words: A Generative Workshop

Fighting Words is a generative poetry workshop designed to inspire and empower participants to write political poetry for both rallies and the stage. The workshop will be led by internationally renowned poet Matt Sedillo, 
Objective:
To produce two political poems one for the stage and one for a rally setting. 
 Structure:
The workshop will be broken into two segments. In one segment participants will write a poem for a political rally. In the second segment poets will write a poem for the stage or conference. Throughout the workshop the participants will be instructed on the difference of the demands of each. Throughout the workshop Sedillo will instruct participants how to weave historical context into personal narrative for explosive results.

Bio:
Matt Sedillo is the Literary Director of the Mexican Cultural Institute of Los Angeles, the National Coordinator for the World Poetry Movement in the US, the CoFounder of El Martillo Press, the host of Radio La Raza on KPFK and the author of Mowing Leaves of Grass, City on the Second Floor, and Mexican Style. His work has been translated and published in seven languages and he has read his work in eleven countries.