A person in a bright purple hoodie with faculty member Leah, a brown femme with teal hair, laughing together.
People walking through a field toward a lake.
Two South Asian fellows, one with blonde hair, sit at a picnic table, facing each other and smiling.
A group of fellows sitting in chairs outside, laughing at something off-camera.
Two Asian American people wearing masks, bent over a table covered in paper, writing. One is wearing yellow-framed glasses with an orange tint.
Two people with curly hair read poems from their phones, into a microphone. One is wearing a keffiyeh.
Three people gather in chairs, talking and listening to each other.
A person in a backwards baseball cap crouches in front of a piece of big easel paper, writing with a marker.
Two people, one Black and one East Asian, sit at a folding table outdoors, laughing at something off-camera.
Faculty member Aurielle Marie, a Black femme, speaks into a microphone, a bouquet of flowers at their feet.
Three Black fellows write in notebooks. The person in the middle is sitting on the floor, while the other two are in chairs.
A group of smiling people of color pose in front of a backdrop of rolling green hills.
Six fellows from the 2022 retreat talking and laughing during golden hour.
Two fellows discussing something. MacKenzie on the right is making a gesture with their hands, while Sojo on the left is mid-laugh.
Two people sit on the floor cushions on a rug outdoors, laughing.
Three people mid-conversation. One is speaking while the other two lean in, listening attentively.
Two Black/Brown women lounge in hammocks hanging from a large tree branch.
An intergenerational group of people writing in notebooks under a tent on a sunny day.
Faculty member Cynthia reads into a microphone on a small outdoor stage, framed by two tiki torches, to a crowd of people sitting in chairs and on blankets. Behind them, the sun is setting.
Three brown-skinned people look out onto farmland. One is wearing a wide-brimmed hand and gesturing toward the land.
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A group of fellows wearing masks standing in a circle looking down at a large paper on the ground with shared brainstorming notes.

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The 2024 retreat is made possible with support from the Markham-Nathan Fund, Resist, the Poetry Foundation, and many individual donors.

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