Join us during National Poetry Month in April at the Center for Colorado Women’s History for a series of poetry workshops facilitated by local educator and poet, Marissa Forbes. Participants are invited to attend all dates but are not required to. Each workshop requires its own RSVP, so please visit each workshop posting to register. Workshops are held each Wednesday in April.

Workshop Description Week 4: Get Dressed for Justice

One important reason to learn about the history of Colorado is to connect it to our present issues—often the same ones women were supporting or fighting throughout time. This workshop will dive deeper into the control and liberation of undergarments, how they supported or restricted women. Then participants can come together to create a social justice collaboration piece that will shed light on how we can educate and empower each other.  

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About the Facilitator

Marissa Forbes (she/her) is an author, artist, and creative instructor. Her poetry books, Surviving Peter Pan (Beyond the Veil Press) and Brief & Bleeding Margins (World Stage Press) were published in 2023. Other published poems and short stories can be read on marissaforbes.com and @word_nerd_ris. She is the Managing Editor for Twenty Bellows, an art instructor at The Art Garage, and teaches poetry for the Denver Chapter of Community Literature Initiative’s 10 month Poetry for Publication program. Forbes has resided all over the country but now lives a colorful life in Denver with her two children, father, dog, and cat where she hones her personal mission of amplifying art and community in Colorado.