“Broken Clocks: Writing Across Time”

In conjunction with the Minnesota Northwoods Writers Conference and Watermark’s Spoken Word series , we invite you to release your inner poet with performative speaker Danez Smith and learn how to generate poems & stories of your own!

This workshop is open to the public but seating is limited, so reserve your place now. The workshop will be held June 27 from 11 – 12:30 at Watermark Art Center.  To register call Watermark at 218-444-7570 or email to Leah Grunzke,  lgrunzke@watermarkartcenter.org. Watch here for updates.

Danez Smith is the author of three collections including Homie and Don’t Call Us Dead. They have won the Forward Prize for Best Collection, the Minnesota Book Award in Poetry, the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and have been a finalist for the NAACP Image Award in Poetry, the National Book Critic Circle Award, and the National Book Award. Danez’s poetry and prose has been featured in Vanity Fair, The New York Times, The New Yorker, GQ, Best American Poetry and on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Danez is a member of the Dark Noise Collective. Former co-host of the Webby nominated podcast VS (Versus), they are the recipient of fellowships from the Poetry Foundation, Princeton, United States Artists, the McKnight Foundation, the Montalvo Arts Center, Cave Canem, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Danez has been featured as part of Forbes’ annual 30 Under 30 list and is the winner of a Pushcart Prize. They live in Minneapolis near their people.

Watermark’s galleries, classroom and gift shop are accessible, free and open to the public Mondays – Saturdays from 10 to 5pm.

This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board and the Region 2 Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund.