The Art & Craft Workshop & Poetry Book Club
The Art & Craft Workshop & Poetry Book Club
The Art & Craft Workshop series spotlights and explores various poetic forms, features, themes, and aspects of the poem-writing and revising process. These are spaces for us to connect to and through poetry; to start, tend to, or revive a creative practice; and to expand our knowledge of contemporary poetry together.
Participants will leave each session with the beginning of a draft, a list of recommended reading for further study, and several writing and revising exercises. Each workshop also includes an invitation to a peer feedback session, where writers will be guided through providing and receiving feedback to each other.
These programs are intended for folks 18 years and older, of all levels of experience, knowledge, and skill in reading, discussing, and writing poetry. Program topics, dates, and registration will be announced here and through my monthly newsletter. Please note that sessions are live online and never recorded.
MAY PROGRAMS
All May programs will be open for registration Friday, May 1st, at 5:00 PM CT.
Join us for the May Poetry Book Club discussion of Horses by Navajo Nation Poet Laureate Jake Skeets on Friday, May 29th, 11:00 AM-1:00 PM CT.
All are welcome, but space is limited to allow for discussion and participation. Participants should read a copy of the collection beforehand and select one poem they would like the group to discuss.
May Poetry Book Club
Join us for the May Poetry Book Club discussion of Horses by Navajo Nation Poet Laureate Jake Skeets on Friday, May 29th, 11:00 AM-1:00 PM CT.
All are welcome, but space is limited to allow for discussion and participation. Participants should read a copy of the collection beforehand and select one poem they would like the group to discuss.
Art & Craft Poetry Workshop on Personification
This 2-hour workshop focuses on personification, the literary device that recognizes the personhood of the non-human. We will look at ancient and contemporary poems that use personification to reanimate the world. Through readings, discussion, and guided creative activities, we will explore personification as a practice that can connect us to the kind of language Robin Wall Kimmerer describes in “Speaking of Nature:” “where [b]irds, bugs, and berries are spoken of with the same respectful grammar as humans are, as if we were all members of the same family. Because we are.”
This 2-hour workshop focuses on personification, the literary device that recognizes the personhood of the non-human. We will look at ancient and contemporary poems that use personification to reanimate the world. Through readings, discussion, and guided creative activities, we will explore personification as a practice that can connect us to the kind of language Robin Wall Kimmerer describes in “Speaking of Nature:” “where [b]irds, bugs, and berries are spoken of with the same respectful grammar as humans are, as if we were all members of the same family. Because we are.”
This 2-hour workshop focuses on personification, the literary device that recognizes the personhood of the non-human. We will look at ancient and contemporary poems that use personification to reanimate the world. Through readings, discussion, and guided creative activities, we will explore personification as a practice that can connect us to the kind of language Robin Wall Kimmerer describes in “Speaking of Nature:” “where [b]irds, bugs, and berries are spoken of with the same respectful grammar as humans are, as if we were all members of the same family. Because we are.”
This 2-hour workshop focuses on personification, the literary device that recognizes the personhood of the non-human. We will look at ancient and contemporary poems that use personification to reanimate the world. Through readings, discussion, and guided creative activities, we will explore personification as a practice that can connect us to the kind of language Robin Wall Kimmerer describes in “Speaking of Nature:” “where [b]irds, bugs, and berries are spoken of with the same respectful grammar as humans are, as if we were all members of the same family. Because we are.”
This 2-hour workshop focuses on personification, the literary device that recognizes the personhood of the non-human. We will look at ancient and contemporary poems that use personification to reanimate the world. Through readings, discussion, and guided creative activities, we will explore personification as a practice that can connect us to the kind of language Robin Wall Kimmerer describes in “Speaking of Nature:” “where [b]irds, bugs, and berries are spoken of with the same respectful grammar as humans are, as if we were all members of the same family. Because we are.”
This 2-hour workshop focuses on personification, the literary device that recognizes the personhood of the non-human. We will look at ancient and contemporary poems that use personification to reanimate the world. Through readings, discussion, and guided creative activities, we will explore personification as a practice that can connect us to the kind of language Robin Wall Kimmerer describes in “Speaking of Nature:” “where [b]irds, bugs, and berries are spoken of with the same respectful grammar as humans are, as if we were all members of the same family. Because we are.”
This 2-hour workshop focuses on personification, the literary device that recognizes the personhood of the non-human. We will look at ancient and contemporary poems that use personification to reanimate the world. Through readings, discussion, and guided creative activities, we will explore personification as a practice that can connect us to the kind of language Robin Wall Kimmerer describes in “Speaking of Nature:” “where [b]irds, bugs, and berries are spoken of with the same respectful grammar as humans are, as if we were all members of the same family. Because we are.”