The Greensboro Public Library is offering Writing & Resilience Part 2, a special online Benjamin Bards workshop from 4-6 pm, Tuesday, May 3. Facilitated by poets Debra Kaufman and Melissa Hassard, Writing & Resilience is all about moving towards clarity and peace in a noisy world. In this session, participants will be reading and writing with an opportunity to share their work.

Debra Kaufman is a poet and playwright who has published seven collections of poetry and several plays. Her newest collection of poems is God Shattered which was published in 2019. Melissa Hassard is a poet and the former managing editor of Sable Books Hybrid Publishing and founder of Women Writers of the Triad. She co-edited Red Sky: Poetry on the Global Epidemic of Violence Against Women in 2017.

Writers and non-writers alike are welcome to join this free workshop. Attendance at previous workshops is not required. Interested participants can email Kelsey Nation and receive a link to the Writing & Resilience, Part 2 Workshop.