Kitchen Table Literary Arts
Class and workshop times vary. Please see our online events calendar at www.kitchen-table.org or contact us at info@kitchen-table.org.
Kitchen Table Literary Arts Center builds awareness, appreciation, and support for Black women, women of color, and BIPOC queer writers, poets, and their work. In addition to our inclusive literary arts education outreach across communities, we also offer in-person and online workshops, classes, and retreat opportunities exclusively for BIPOC women and queer writers and poets.
In 1980, activist, feminist, writer, and scholar Barbara Smith started a press "to make visual the writing, culture, and history of women of color." At the urging of poet Audre Lorde and a collective of other poets, writers, and essayists, Smith set out on the inspired and passionate tasks of building the mission, goals, and reach of the Kitchen Table Press. She chose the name, "Kitchen Table," because that sturdy, purposeful gathering place is "the center of the home, the place where women in particular work and communicate with each other" (Smith, 1989).
At Kitchen Table Literary Arts, we honor this tradition with more than our name. The work of increasing the visibility for Black women writers, poets, and artists of color is still extremely necessary, and our center's mission reflects our dedication to this very important work.
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