Friday, March 31st, 4:00-5:30 p.m. (PDT)

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Santa Clara County Youth Poet Laureate Workshop: Still We Rise with Sofía Aguilar!

What do you want to fight for? In this generative writing workshop, Sofía Aguilar will facilitate a group-led reading and discussion of three political poetry poems from revolutionary thinkers and writers, then offer a series of questions as prompts to create their own political poem, with an optional opportunity for sharing. Attendees will learn how to use and identify strategies for using poetry as a medium for social justice, call to action, community empowerment, protest against injustice, resistance to oppression, and meaningful change. This will be a free workshop for writers of any level with an emphasis on youth attendance, and will close the workshop schedule to encourage youth to apply to our SCC YPLP application. 

Sofía Aguilar is a Chicana writer and editor based on the traditional homelands of the Tongva and Chumash peoples, now known as Los Angeles, California. Her work has appeared in Los Angeles Times, Refinery29 Somos, and New Orleans Review, among other publications. As an alum of WriteGirl and a first-generation college graduate, Sofía earned a BA from Sarah Lawrence College, where she received the Andrea Klein Willison Prize for Poetry and the Spencer Barnett Memorial Prize for Excellence in Latin American and Latinx Studies. She is currently a 2023 Mentee in the Latinx in Publishing Writers Mentorship Program and has published two poetry chapbooks, STREAMING SERVICE: golden shovels made for tv and its sequel STREAMING SERVICE: season two.