Write With Pride Workshop

In this workshop, facilitated by Kerri French, we will focus on love poems, exploring the ways we think and write about love as well as how identity influences our approaches to love.

Kerri French is the author of Every Room in the Body (Moon City Press, 2017), winner of the 2016 Moon City Poetry Award and the North Carolina Poetry Society’s 2018 Brockman-Campbell Book Award. Instruments of Summer, her chapbook of poems about Amy Winehouse, was published in 2013 by Dancing Girl Press. Her poetry has appeared in Washington Square Review, BOAAT, Copper Nickel, The Los Angeles Review, The Journal, Mid-American Review, Barrow Street, Nashville Review, and Best New Poets, among others. A North Carolina native, she has lived in Georgia, Massachusetts, Tennessee, and England and holds degrees from UNC-Chapel Hill, UNC-Greensboro, and Boston University. She lives in Murfreesboro, Tennessee and is an academic advisor and instructor at Middle Tennessee State University.

This workshops is made possible with the support of Rutherford Arts Alliance, Tennessee Arts Commission, Metro Arts, Academy of American Poets, Poetry in the Boro, Oasis, and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.