Visiting Poet Libby Mislan Reading and Embodied Writing Workshop
April 23 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
FREE
Dear GCU Creative Community,
It’s National Poetry Month and the sun is shining and crocuses are blooming — let’s celebrate with our 2026 Visiting Poet Libby Mislan. Please, join the Department of English, Communication, and IDS and the Richey Center for Humanities and Creative Arts for a poetry reading and writing workshop on Thursday, April 23rd at 3:30 PM in the Jeffries Hall Little Theater.
Libby Mislan (she/her) is a poet and community based artist living in Brooklyn, New York. She received her MFA in poetry in 2018 from Vermont College of Fine Arts, and she has received grants from New York State Council on the Arts and Queens Arts Fund to develop works of poetry, and multi-disciplinary performance-based work. Libby is currently working on a series of essays about millennial aging, the erotic, friendship, and fertility.
In addition to her own creative process, Libby designs and facilitates arts projects and workshops to engage communities in creative expression. She works as a teaching artist in New York City public schools with non-profit organizations Community-Word Project, City Lore, and Teachers & Writers Collaborative. Libby is also a certified leader in InterPlay, an active, creative approach to unlock the wisdom of the body that uses improvisational storytelling, movement and song.
Embodied Writing with Libby Mislan
Where does your writing come from– your head, or your body? Visiting poet Libby Mislan advocates for an approach to writing that engages the whole body, and all its sensory and emotional capabilities. Utilizing improv warm-ups from Interplay, an active, creative approach to unlock the wisdom of the body, we will explore what it means to write from an embodied place.
