Christie Valentin-Bati
Christie Valentin-Bati (she/her) is a suburban kid from Florida now mostly grown up with an MFA in Poetry from Columbia College. She is an interdisciplinary poet and photographer writing in the lineage of Black women writers declaring radical truth/love through unflinching self-expression like Audre Lorde, bell hooks, and Lucille Clifton. Her creative work and pedagogy emphasizes the quotidian as the bulk of life resides in the ordinary. Beyond the mundane, her work explores ecology and gender, and hybridity and genre-defying forms which includes combining text with visual art, collage, and photography. Her work has received honorable mention in the 2022 and 2021 Academy of American Poet’s Poetry Contest, has been commissioned by the ACLU of Illinois, and exhibited in Porous Gallery and Davis Street Drawing Room. She is published in Allium Journal, Bending Genres, and Menacing Hedge among others. More info on Christie Valentin-Bati…
Workshops:
02/06/2024 “Coming Into Light“
12/05/2023 “Season of Grief“
08/18/2023 “I Remember“
06/30/2023 “When I Was Alive“
09/30/2022 “erasure poem where you are the white space“
08/19/2022 “Autobiography“
02/04/2022 “Testify“