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.

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Workshop Description Week 3: Personification: Briefs & Bleeding

If you experience bleeding monthly have you ever taken on the voice of that blood? Have you ever tried to understand what our underwear goes through each month–especially those ratty ones we all keep just for the cyclical occasion? Are you brave enough to personify your period? Join us as we explore the menstrual experiences and a bit on sex work through Colorado history then give life and a voice to the items used to soak it all up through the poetic method of personification. 

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.