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Help María Fernanda Develop Her Screenplay (at a Residency)!
"Poetry is film's first cousin." — Nikky Finney
Hi Friends, Fellow Creatives, Lovers of Art, and Curious Public! My screenplay and poetry were selected to be further developed! To attend this prestigious residency, the deadline is Saturday, August 30, 2025 to raise the money to attend the residency. Please consider contributing. Thank you!
Returning to Dolores Kendrick
A generative writing poetry workshop honoring DC’s second poet laureate Dolores Kendrick, led by award-winning poet María Fernanda. 🗓️Tues., August 19, 2025 at 7:00pm.
$30 - $60 │ 2hr
Special Discount Rate
Archiving the Self
Discuss our current times, write about them through poetry and,read works by Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison. 🗓️Sat., August 22, 2025 at 10:30am.
$30 - $60 │ 2hr
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Reading & Writing Inspired by Barbara Chase-Riboud
Join award-winning poet María Fernanda in reading visual artist Barbara Chase-Riboud’s early poetry book From Memphis & Peking. Chase-Riboud once said, “drawing prepared me for the demands of poetry, but nothing prepared me for the joy of writing it.” 🗓️ Mon., August 25, 2025 at 7:00pm.
$30 - $60 │ 2hr
Special Discount Rate
SEEING DOUBLE — Giveaway
Consider contributing $150+ to my GoFundMe to receive a brand new poetry book by one of my favorite poets. Why these books? In my own personal library, I have bought TWO copies of these books over the years to share with fellow poets. Now, I want to share them with you! For the first five people to contribute $150+ (including people who want to add to their original donation amount), l will send you a brand new copy to support a few of my favorite poets!
📚What Noise Against the Cane by Desiree C. Bailey
📚Concentrate by Courtney Faye Taylor
📚& more black by T’ai Freedom Ford
📚The Renunciations by Donika Kelley. 🗓️ Deadline Saturday, August 30, 2025
Donate $150 │ 1 Book
Additional Writing Opportunities
Drop-In Style
This experience is self-guided with twelve available writing prompts by award-winning poet María Fernanda. This format focuses on the concept that the American Poetry Museum is a place where people can come in and write poetry throughout the day 🗓️ Ongoing
FREE │ Wknds
Featured Event From the Poetry with María Fernanda Archive
Featured — BGIAS: Black Girls Writers Room (DMV) @ NMWA
a black girls’ poetry workshop
national museum of women in the arts
Explore generations of language in this free poetry workshop with award-winning poet María Fernanda, from DC, who invites participants to learn how to write a contrapuntal poem, a form blending two or more poems and read in multiple ways. Generative writing exercises will be inspired by excerpts of poems, in-library literary archives, and other sources. Participants will consider the many histories of a word, a name, a home, and so much more. This is for first-time writers and poetry enthusiasts alike. Note: Participants will create in-workshop poems and use them to blend; no need to bring poems already written.
Details at Black Girls in Art Spaces.
Review of event here.