Writing as Self-Love

Museum of Glass NEA Big Read Program

Join us for a poetry writing workshop that fuses the ancient art of African storytelling with modern spoken word poetry. The speaker will present virtually to participants in the Meeting Room.

In partnership with the Museum of Glass on the National Endowment for the Arts Big Read grant featuring the book Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi.

Why write about uncomfortable experiences? And why share them with others? Writing a collection of poetry about trauma was never a dream of Chelsey Richardson’s, but she did want to be a writer, and expressing her pain through writing gave her a tool for self-love, joy, and liberation. 

Chelsey Richardson grounds her work in the notion that her role as an artist is to tell the bittersweet truth. She is a mother, teacher, and poet. The CD Forum for Arts and Ideas, said this about her work, “Her writing requires you to think critically and examine the world in which we live. She is a writer that truly represents independent poetic expression.” In 2019-2020 she was awarded the role of "Master Poet" by The Center for Washington Cultural Traditions. She is the creator of the workshop, Writing as Self Love, a workshop developed to harness the power of healing trauma through the written word. She released her debut poetry book, All Water has Perfect Memory in 2021. You may have read or heard her work in Poetry on the Bus, The South Seattle Emerald, The Carter Center Forum on Human Rights in Atlanta, and Natasha Marin’s, Black Powerful. She holds a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Washington and Master's in Teaching English Education.  

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