My Soul is a Wild Wild Wild Horse Galloping Across Galaxies: The Power of The Short Poem  

By focusing on the American poetic form, the Lune, we will examine poems as lyrics and tiny paintings and how our 5 senses can inspire concrete nouns that can create poems bursting with imagery. This writing workshop will start by writing warm-ups that will ground us before composing and sharing the American form of the haiku. This workshop is open to all levels of writers young adults through seniors. 

Regie Cabico is the first Asian American and queer poet to win top prizes in 3 National Poetry Slams and a Nuyorican Poets Cafe Grand Slam Champion. Mr. Cabico is the author of A Rabbit In Search of a Rolex (Day IEight, 2023). He appeared on TEDx Talk, HBO's Def Poetry & NPR's Snap Judgement. He is the editor of 4 anthologies including Flicker & Spark: An Anthology of Poetry and Spoken Word (Low Brow, 2013). He is a lead spoken word poetry educator at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and is the Executive Director of A Gathering of the Tribes in New York CIty. 

This workshop is made possible by The Virginia Commission for the Arts, Artspace, and Slam Richmond.