(Online) Social Justice Poem-Making with Jim Moreno

This 3-hour Zoom workshop for beginning or seasoned poets looks at the first Mother’s Day started in 1872 by Julia Ward Howe as “Mothers for Peace”.

Ms. Howe issued a Mother’s Day proclamation which began, “Arise, then, women of this day! Arise, all women who have hearts, whether our baptism be that of water or of tears…”, then continued urging, “We women of one country will be too tender of those of another country to allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs…”, and ended with the admonition that, “the sword of murder is not the balance of justice. In the middle of Howe’s proclamation she cried out the truth of, “from the bosom of the devastated earth a voice goes up with our own. It says, Disarm! Disarm!”

Poems by Paul Laurence Dunbar, and Nikki Giovanni will begin this exercise of writing in community, preceded by quotations from writers and poets who reflect the importance of a Mother’s Day for peace.

Date | Sunday, May 29, 2022 at 1pm

Location | Virtual Link

Purchase tickets here! $54 for members and $63 for nonmembers

For further information on this event please visit: http://www.sandiegowriters.org/2022-05-29-online-was-2022s-mothers-day-dystopic-social-justice-poem-making-with-jim-moreno/