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Workshops
POETRY LAB: FORM'S EXPERIMENTAL ROOTS
Focused on experimentation as a synaptic device in poetry. This workshop leads participants on an exploration of the experimental foundation of traditional poetic forms, as well as the synergy from which new, experimental forms arises from experimentation to shoulder the immediate, aesthetic, personal, environmental, and political visions of writers today. We will journey with the term poiesis--a beloved term by poets—which translates loosely to mean ’the making of something out of nothing.’ Together, participants will be encouraged to consider not only language's ability to bring into being new feelings, perspectives, and original metaphors, but equally how such perspectives are found in the unearthing of new experimental or hybrid forms. What is the relationship to form and poetic language? How do pre-existing forms or free-verse stanzas assist or hinder a poet’s intended creative representation? Is experimental poetry empowering? Political? An act of refusal and resistance?We will begin by engaging in a series of writing exercises ranging from experimental prose poetry to diptych and triptych forms. Exercises will followed by periods of collaborative sharing. Breaks will be interspersed with sample poems by contemporary poets, artists, and activists whose works engage with experimentation, new, and found forms. We will end with a fun and artsy individual project to take home, commemorate our writing in our time together.
WHERE WE ARE NOW: POETRY'S PLACE AND RETURN TO THE RETURNING BODY
What is the body returning to? If we are to call our anticipated meetings back in-person with each other following the ongoing upending resonances of pandemic years a return to something? To something we love, but something also unfamiliar, forgotten, and that we feel distanced in our bodies from? How to orient ourselves in poetry? In our bodily orientations to place, the city, intimacy of everyday objects, and with each other? In this in-person workshop, we will explore the poetic spaces that collect our stories, our memories, and also the orientation of our bodies. What is queerness in this context? What can be written and shared about the feeling of queer returns? Public returns? Returns to the surroundings communities that have defined our feeling at home while being stuck at home, longing for alternatives? We will begin by engaging in a series of writing exercises, followed by a period of collaborative sharing. Breaks will be interspersed with sample poems by contemporary poets, artists, and activists. The latter half of the session will be guided on editing and revision. We will end with an art project to commemorate our writing in this workshop experience.
Focused on experimentation as a synaptic device in poetry. This workshop leads participants on an exploration of the experimental foundation of traditional poetic forms, as well as the synergy from which new, experimental forms arises from experimentation to shoulder the immediate, aesthetic, personal, environmental, and political visions of writers today. We will journey with the term poiesis--a beloved term by poets—which translates loosely to mean ’the making of something out of nothing.’ Together, participants will be encouraged to consider not only language's ability to bring into being new feelings, perspectives, and original metaphors, but equally how such perspectives are found in the unearthing of new experimental or hybrid forms. What is the relationship to form and poetic language? How do pre-existing forms or free-verse stanzas assist or hinder a poet’s intended creative representation? Is experimental poetry empowering? Political? An act of refusal and resistance?We will begin by engaging in a series of writing exercises ranging from experimental prose poetry to diptych and triptych forms. Exercises will followed by periods of collaborative sharing. Breaks will be interspersed with sample poems by contemporary poets, artists, and activists whose works engage with experimentation, new, and found forms. We will end with a fun and artsy individual project to take home, commemorate our writing in our time together.
WHERE WE ARE NOW: POETRY'S PLACE AND RETURN TO THE RETURNING BODY
What is the body returning to? If we are to call our anticipated meetings back in-person with each other following the ongoing upending resonances of pandemic years a return to something? To something we love, but something also unfamiliar, forgotten, and that we feel distanced in our bodies from? How to orient ourselves in poetry? In our bodily orientations to place, the city, intimacy of everyday objects, and with each other? In this in-person workshop, we will explore the poetic spaces that collect our stories, our memories, and also the orientation of our bodies. What is queerness in this context? What can be written and shared about the feeling of queer returns? Public returns? Returns to the surroundings communities that have defined our feeling at home while being stuck at home, longing for alternatives? We will begin by engaging in a series of writing exercises, followed by a period of collaborative sharing. Breaks will be interspersed with sample poems by contemporary poets, artists, and activists. The latter half of the session will be guided on editing and revision. We will end with an art project to commemorate our writing in this workshop experience.
POETS FORWARD
This workshop encourages participants to consider issues of the dynamic world, and to discuss why poetry IS political; IS imaginative; IS activism. How can the vulnerability of writing in this difficult time be turned into a strength, generating powerful and necessary perspectives? The pandemic brings with it overwhelming changes; yet, for the poet, channels new creative possibilities of expression. How can we remain committed to the various social, artistic and interdisciplinary spaces we occupy as responsible community citizens? We will begin by engaging in a series of writing exercises, followed by a period of collaborative sharing. Breaks will be interspersed with sample poems by contemporary poets, artists, and activists. The latter half of the session will be guided on editing and revision. We will end with an art project to commemorate our writing in this workshop experience.
Reading list includes Joy Harjo, Joe Brainard, Layli Longsoldier, among others.
This workshop encourages participants to consider issues of the dynamic world, and to discuss why poetry IS political; IS imaginative; IS activism. How can the vulnerability of writing in this difficult time be turned into a strength, generating powerful and necessary perspectives? The pandemic brings with it overwhelming changes; yet, for the poet, channels new creative possibilities of expression. How can we remain committed to the various social, artistic and interdisciplinary spaces we occupy as responsible community citizens? We will begin by engaging in a series of writing exercises, followed by a period of collaborative sharing. Breaks will be interspersed with sample poems by contemporary poets, artists, and activists. The latter half of the session will be guided on editing and revision. We will end with an art project to commemorate our writing in this workshop experience.
Reading list includes Joy Harjo, Joe Brainard, Layli Longsoldier, among others.
Teen workshops
PERSONAL NARRATIVES: WHERE SPACE AND POETRY INTERSECTS
In this workshop, we will be looking at the various forms of poetry that intertwine with storytelling. How do we express ourselves through poetry? How do we draw inspiration and respond to a world that is progressively changing? Students will have a chance to look at different poems by contemporary poets, as well as video demonstrations showing how poetry can be illustrated, visualized, and otherwise interpreted. A series of hands-on writing exercises will encourage students to tell stories by engaging with different poems, different objects, as well as experiment with writing of their own. A fun arts and crafts project will be to follow, where students will be able to turn what they’ve written into a chapbook to take home.
In this workshop, we will be looking at the various forms of poetry that intertwine with storytelling. How do we express ourselves through poetry? How do we draw inspiration and respond to a world that is progressively changing? Students will have a chance to look at different poems by contemporary poets, as well as video demonstrations showing how poetry can be illustrated, visualized, and otherwise interpreted. A series of hands-on writing exercises will encourage students to tell stories by engaging with different poems, different objects, as well as experiment with writing of their own. A fun arts and crafts project will be to follow, where students will be able to turn what they’ve written into a chapbook to take home.
