Join us on Thursday, October 3rd for the second in our Youth Workshop series.
These free workshops are youth-centered, for poets and writers between the ages of 14 and 19 years of age. The workshops are led by alumni of ProvSlam's Youth program. All experiences are welcome!
This second workshop will be led by former ProvSlam co-director Muggs Fogarty.
About the instructor:
Muggs Fogarty is a writer, performance artist, and vocalist from Providence, Rhode Island. Muggs is the author of poetry chapbooks Unburn (Ghost Hum Arts 2016) and Sex Camel (Game Over Books 2018), and can be found fronting music acts, Lookers, Bittersweet and their solo loop pedal poetry project. A former director of Providence Poetry Slam, Muggs has taught and mentored several youth & collegiate poetry groups through UCONN, Brown University, RISD, New Urban Arts, City Arts, PASA, ProvSlam Youth and has received awards from Rhode Island State Council for the Arts for projects in support of local youth writers. Muggs' poetry work has been featured with The Poetry Foundation, Button Poetry, Freezeray, Providence Monthly and Radar Productions. Muggs is host of ‘Chaos Hour’ on WVVX 101.1 Providence Community Radio and is a resident of non-profit community arts space, AS220. Muggs also practices myofascial bodywork and is currently pursuing a master’s in acupuncture.