inkTAG Poetry Selection Workshop with Karla Comanda

Does poetry make your brain sing? Join the ink Teen Advisory Group and poet Karla Comanda for this two-day workshop to learn what makes a poem work and help choose the best poetry for Volume 9 of ink, VPL's annual journal of teen art and writing.

Karla Comanda (they/she) is a poet, playwright, editor, translator, educator, and arts administrator. Their poems have appeared in Contemporary Verse 2, filling station, decomp, Poetry is Dead, Room Magazine, and others. She has taught writing workshops for the UBC Philippine Studies Series, Vancouver Public Library, Migrante BC, La Salle University - Ozamiz, Western Mindanao State University, Co.ERASGA, and other organizations and institutions. In 2019, Karla hosted the Sinag-Araw Writing Workshop, a poetry workshop series created for Filipino youth in the diaspora.

ink TAG is limited to Vancouver residents. For teens aged 13-18.

To register, click HERE.

Accessibility Information

Teen Services is working to make our programs accessible to all Vancouver teens. If you have an access need that we have not addressed here, please email us at [email protected].

• This program takes place in a programming room. • Participants are welcome to move, stim, or take breaks as needed. • Sensory Kits with fidget toys will be available.