What is Justice: Workshop Series Part 2

Event Description

Join award-winning author and poet Terry Watson and State College’s inaugural Poet Laureate Carmin Wong for a unique community-centered examination of words, storytelling, disability, race, and justice.

”Finding Our Voice,” the second of two workshops, will reflect on selected poems and the stories they tell and how they help us to process and understand the world. Participants will discuss techniques to translate lived experience into creative work and will begin the process of developing personal narratives through poetry.

The workshop series is free and open to the public but limited to 14 participants. Registration is required. Participants are asked to attend both in-person workshops and a free public performance in September.

The series is part of the Performing Arts & Disability Collaborative, a colloquium of the Humanities Institute at Penn State, of which the Center is a collaborative partner. Throughout the 2026–27 season, disability advocates and scholars will host events centered on the topic of the intersection of the performing arts and disability.