Poetry Workshop: Soul Portraits: Slam Poetry as a Deep Dive Inside the Heart
Week 6 | MWF | Poetry Room, Alumni Hall | Ages 18+
Influenced by the passionate wordsmiths of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Former International Poetry Slam Champion Gayle Danley's session will free participants of all skill levels to truly express themselves through the spoken word. Attendees will experience Gayle's simple writing and performing process allowing them to delve into the sweetest parts of their souls. This generative workshop will create a space full of nurturing, learning, laughing and discovering what lies inside of ourselves and celebrate the power we all have to share our journeys on stage. Judgement and expectation free.
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Gayle Danley
After winning the International Poetry Slam in Heidelberg Germany, poet Gayle Danley entered America's classrooms, teaching children the power of words as an aid in healing trauma and creating a life of hope and options.
Gayle facilitates grief writing workshops with Johns Hopkins and Sinai Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, and she also works with women experiencing homelessness, showing them how to use their words to find home. CBS 60 Minutes, The Baltimore Sun, Washington Post and New York Times have profiled her work as a teaching artist and stage performer.
Gayle provides professional development for teachers at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC and heightening their experience of the museum's works of art. She served as the Maryland Library Association Poet of the Year and is a former national Young Audiences Artist of the Year. Gayle lives in Silver Spring, MD with her beautiful boys, Noah and Nolan and her cat Olive.
