No, Dear 2026 Workshop Series - August Edition: The Power of Control, facilitated by Rishona Michael . . Monday, August 10, 7-9pm on Zoom . . . Political poetry is often an exploration of power—how it is claimed, challenged, withheld, and returned. At its simplest, it can be used for documentation, critique, protest, and advocation. It can call attention, bear witness, and give voice. In this class we will study the way power shows up in poetry. We will understand when to hold power, when to release it, and how language can shift authority. Reading poets like Cornelius Eady, June Jordan, Diana DiPrima, George Abraham and more will help us to examine how they reclaim, redirect, and redistribute power through diction, structure, and voice. Together we will discover how to use our own diction and voice to declare or yield power and return it back to the community.