Art Farm at West Dry Creek
national poetry month & word/art
reading & interactive writing workshop
with Gabriel Cortez
Saturday, April 18, 2-4pm
Back by popular demand! Join poet, educator, and organizer, Gabriel Cortez for a writing workshop at Art Farm at West Dry Creek. Participants will be guided through writing prompts, readings, brainstorms, and other activities to help them put pen to page. Expect to have fun, to get deep, to laugh, and to play as you write poems in a safe and encouraging space. No prior writing experience is required. Just bring yourself and your favorite writing utensil and we’ve got the rest!
Saturday, April 18, 2-4pm
Interactive poetry reading and writing workshop with Gabriel Cortez
Celebrate National Poetry Month at Art Farm with another highly requested poetry event organized in collaboration with WORD/ART in Healdsburg. Gabriel Cortez is a poet, educator, and organizer based in the Bay Area, California. His work has appeared in Poem-A-Day by The Academy of American Poets, The New York Times, The Rumpus, The Breakbeat Poets Anthology Volume 4, and elsewhere. A VONA, Poetry Incubator, and #BARS workshop alum, he has received awards from the Gerbode Foundation, the Rainin Foundation, the National Performance Network, the University of California, Palette Poetry, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. He is pursuing his MFA in Creative Writing at St. Mary’s College of California. Gabriel’s debut one person show, Between Two Rising Seas, opens at Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana (MACLA) in Fall 2027. He is a member of the artist collective, Ghostlines, and co-founder of The Root Slam, an award-winning poetry venue dedicated to inclusivity, justice, and artistic growth, as well as Write Home, a project working to challenge public perceptions of houselessness and shift critical resources to houseless Bay Area youth through poetry and arts programming. Gabriel was the inaugural poet in residence at The Ecology Center, Shelterwood Collective, and Art Farm at West Dry Creek, where he used poetry and arts education to uplift local legacies of resistance rooted in environmental justice and food and land sovereignty. Gabriel has served on the board of directors for Performing Arts Workshop and currently serves on the board of The Bay Area Book Festival. From 2014 to 2023, he was Lead Poet Mentor and Director of Programs at Youth Speaks.
Gabriel is of Black, white, and Panamanian descent. His work explores power, identity, belonging, and gold teeth. For more, visit www.GabrielMCortez.com
This event is free. Space in the Art Barn is limited! Please RSVP below by April 16th. Light beverages and snacks will be offered. Art Farm is located at 321 West Dry Creek Road in Healdsburg, CA. Check out more WORD/ART events throughout Healdsburg here.
We Can’t wait to welcome you!
