On September 26, join WMMT and Roadside Theater for a FREE evening with ONDINE QUINN, author of Creating Community through Cuban Cuisine. Ondine will lead a workshop on poetry as a vehicle for sharing our stories and will discuss their new cookbook.
Where:
- Groundswell, 229 E. Main Street, Whitesburg, KY 41858
When:
- September 26, 2024
- From 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm, Ondine will lead a workshop on poetry as a vehicle for sharing our stories. While free, this portion of the evening requires registration.
- At 7:15, Ondine will discuss their new cookbook, Creating Community through Cuban Cuisine.
This event is put on in partnership with Kentucky Foundation for Women, Cowan Community Center, and the Read Spotted Newt
Workshop: Wild tongues can't be tamed: Poetry as an act of love, truth-telling and resistance
In this workshop we will discuss poetry as a vehicle for sharing our stories, particularly those that are deliberately silenced or preferably unheard. We will read poetry from authors describing what it is to live at the margins, and workshop participants will have an opportunity to write a poem that reflects their own identities and/or experiences. Lastly, there will be a reading from Lexington, KY based poet Ondine Quinn.
While the second half of the evening is open to everyone, the first half—a special writing workshop led by Ondine beginning at 6:00 PM—will have limited space and is capped at 20 people. Please register using the form below to reserve your spot!
Refreshments will be available.
This workshop is being held in conjunction with a book talk later in the evening with Ondine. Information on that event can be found via our Facebook event.
More About the Author
Ondine Quinn (they/them) is a visual artist, musician, and writer based out of Lexington, Kentucky. Their work explores themes of grief, belonging, resistance, and our relationship to the natural world, and is informed by their experience growing up as a queer latinx/e person in a working class family. In 2022 Ondine published their first book, a collection of vegan Cuban recipes inspired by their mother’s cooking. They began their poetry journey in 2020 through “Writing What Is”, a poetry circle for BIPOC women and femme poets founded by LeTonia Jones and Tanya Torp. They were accepted into the 2023 Appalachian Writers Workshop in Hindman Kentucky, and their poem “From From” was published in an anthology of Lexington writers as part of the 2023 LexPoMo writing challenge. Ondine has been invited to read in and around central Kentucky, including at the Carnegie Center’s 2023 Queer Literary Hoedown, and the 2024 Lexington Pride festival, and will be one of the featured readers in November at Lexington’s monthly poetry event at Kenwick Table. When not writing, Ondine enjoys playing video games, drinking coffee and spending time with their partner Drew, and their dog named Rabbit.
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