Watu Moja presents Griot's Ink

This program featured four eminent poets coming to Camden to lead small writing workshops, during which participants from the city and surrounding communities had the opportunity to generate new writing. Participants had have the option to share their writing at an open mic, and each of the visiting poets read from their own work in a closing program. 

Visiting poets: 

Tyehimba Jess, Pulitzer Prize winner in poetry, author of Leadbelly and Olio, and Distinguished Professor at CUNY-SI

Randall Horton, Professor of English at the University of New Haven, award-winning prose and poetry author, and founder of the Mellon-funded Radical Reversal, which puts recording studios inside carceral facilities and gives incarcerated populations the capacity to write, record, and produce songs

Willie Perdomo, native of El Barrio, East Harlem, internationally renowned poet, National Book Critics Circle Finalist, winner of PEN America’s Beyond Margins Prize and the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Faber Prize, recent poet laureate of New York State, and Tenured Instructor at Philips Exeter

Timothy Seibles, Philadelphia native, Professor Emeritus of Poetry at Old Dominion University, Finalist for the National Book Award, and winner of the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award.

A free 60-minute writing workshop with four award-winning poets, followed by an open mic. Each visiting poet read from their own work, and participants had the option to share their writing.