Poetry Workshop with Chantel Massey

Join local poet, author, and teaching artist Chantel Massey at Indy Reads for a poetry workshop in partnership with Indiana Authors Awards!

Tender and Titanic: Community, Immortality and Care Through Poetry

Participants will explore Audre Lorde’s poetry and her essay The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action alongside the poetry of Jericho Brown, Danez Smith, Lucille Clifton, Franny Choi and more to reflect on our responsibility to care for ourselves and the power in using our own voices through poetry.

Chantel Massey is a storyteller, poet, author, teaching artist, editor, organizer, educator, practicing Afrofuturist, and avid anime lover from Indiana. Massey is a fellow of The Watering Hole and received support from VONA poetry, Brooklyn Poets, Hurston/Wright Foundation, and Tin House. She is a 2023 Best of Net Award winner and 2020 Indiana Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Awards Emerging Author finalist for her first collection of poetry, Bursting At The Seams (VK Press, 2018), a Midwest Black girl coming of age story. Massey founded the literary arts organization, UnLearn Arts, radically dedicated to amplifying and cultivating the craft and wellness of BIPOC writers in the Midwest and elsewhere. Alongside performing poetry, Massey serves as board member and Community Outreach Committee member for youth poetry organization, Word As Bond and reader at Revolute Magazine. Massey is also a teaching artist for the Asante Art Institute Zora’s Daughters writing program, and a Caliban Art Board Member.