Join Portland Poet Laureate Maya Williams for an online reading & poetry workshop! Maya (ey/they/she) will talk about the relationship between poetry, mental health, and resilience, and will give a reading of their own work. We’ll distribute a prompt for workshop participants to inspire their own poems, and will share our work together.
Maya is the author of a Bendable Community Collection, “Using Poetry to Explore Mental Health.” You can check out the Collection here!
Maya Williams (she/hers, they/them, and ey/em) is a religious nonbinary Black multiracial suicide survivor who is currently the seventh Poet Laureate of Portland, Maine. Maya has published poetry in glitterMOB, Occulum, The Portland Press Herald, Littoral Books, FreezeRay, and more. Maya’s debut poetry collection, Judas & Suicide, is available for pre-order through Game Over Books and will be released May 30th, 2023. Learn more about Maya.
