Workshops

Jazzelle is a multifaceted writer, lyricist, and arts advocate from Memphis, TN, who uses spoken word and songwriting to center the Black experience through a lens of radical truth. A Red Poet, Consortium MMT Emerging Star, and Brave New Voices Alumna, Jazzelle has graced national stages from META-4 Houston’s 2018 slam team to the 2026 BlackBerry Peach National Poetry Slam. Today, she blends art with activism as a teaching artist, host, and grant writer for The Poet House, where she is dedicated to mentoring youth writers and securing paid opportunities for the next generation of literary creatives.

Mazat is a Ch'orti and Nahua poet that centers his work around visibilizing his Pueblo's legacy. His pieces focus on the intertwining of indigenous with afro liberation and how we can use art to organize our communities. He has experience in leading Spanish speaking writing workshops and has worked with aspiring immigrant writers of all backgrounds. As a teaching artist, he is especially interested in empowering people to create art from their family history and creating spaces where writers can find their own ancestral power. 

Maxochitl is a queer poet & multidisciplinary artist whose work explores collective liberation, Indigenous rights, and grief. They have experience in cultural education, community organizing, and root their work in lived experience. As a teaching artist, they are especially interested in poetry as a social justice tool and vessel for authentic expression, creating spaces where writers can liberate themselves through art that supports collective liberation.

Ms. Trin-I-Tee is a spoken word and performance poet from Houston, Texas. A UT Austin graduate in Rhetoric and Writing, she has performed on 50+ stages in CTX and beyond. Their art confronts colonial practices and corrupt social systems, centering intersecting identities and radical imagination.