Yanaguana: voices · healing · art a literary journal from San Antonio, Texas
Adela Najarro presents:
“How to Love a Family Story”
A Canto, Grito
Creative Writing Workshop
Save the Date:
October 13, 6:00 PM — 8:00 PM CDT
Adela Najarro is the author of, most recently, Variations in Blue, for which she was awarded the 47th Annual American Book Award by the Before Columbus Foundation. Variations in Blue is the second volume in the Letras Latinas / Red Hen Press collaborative series. Adela Najarro’s other works include Split Geography, Twice Told Over, My Childrens, and Volcanic Interruptions, a chapbook featuring the art of Janet Trenchard.
About Adela’s Workshop
“How to Love a Family Story”
Poetry encompasses all and cannot be contained, but where to start? In this workshop, we’ll start with love, with those we love, with those who are tied to our hearts in the complexities of family joy and disappointment. To find truth, we need to dance through the familial mess and come out the other side with a piece of art called a poem.
Thich Nhat Hanh, a renowned Zen Buddhist monk, published a tiny little book, How to Love, and using his words as a starting point, we will dive deep into the complexities of loving the people in our lives.
In addition, join this workshop to expand your poetry toolbox. We will consider how image powers a poem’s trajectory and the indeterminacy of language. There are multiple ways to love and multiple ways to capture those we love in our poems. For whom does your love speak?
Hosted by Voices de la Luna and Yanaguana, this workshop supports our mission to inspire and promote literature and the arts, and to use creative work for education and healing.
Writers and artists of all levels are welcome to listen, draft, share, and grow in community.
Variations in Blue
Red Hen Press, 2025