International poetry slam champion Kai Davis presents a poetry workshop, open to all levels, on poetry as a memory keeper. When we think of how societies record history, we don’t often think of poetry.

This workshop will introduce poems that function as historical documents and invite participants to name the ways in which that work challenges the conventions of record-keeping. How is using poetry to document history a radical act for marginalized people?

Kai Davis (she/her) is a black queer writer, performer and teaching artist from Philadelphia. Her work examines how power operates globally, nationally, interpersonally, and internally.