2023 Writer's Salon Workshops Series

Some of the strongest feelings we have are about our own names and the people we love. In this workshop, we will study poems by Ebony Stewart and Meghan Malachi on reclaiming your own name and how to love someone by truly seeing them. Through a series of writing exercises and conversations, participants will consider the power of their own names and the strength of their love (self-love or love for another person). Ariana will guide everyone in writing odes to themselves or to their loved ones. Ideal for writers of all backgrounds.

About the Facilitator: 

Ariana Brown is a queer Black Mexican American poet from San Antonio, TX, now based in Houston, TX. She is the author of We Are Owed. (Grieveland, 2021) and Sana Sana (Game Over Books, 2020). She holds a B.A. in African Diaspora Studies and Mexican American Studies, an M.F.A. in Poetry, and is pursuing an M.S. in Library and Information Science. A national collegiate poetry slam champion, Ariana has over ten years of experience in creative writing, performance, and teaching.