Sound & Background: Using Etymology to Kickstart Your Writing with Michael Mercurio We all know that poems are "the best words in the best order," but how do you find the best words? This workshop will provide you with tools for finding them through etymology and sound. Bio: Michael Mercurio lives and writes in the […]
(Soma)tic Poetry Rituals with CAConrad Please join us to explore how (Soma)tic Poetry Rituals can help us see the creative viability in everything around us. CAConrad has created writing rituals using the night sky to design homemade star constellations, another ritual to dream with crows, and many others, from talking with trees and ghosts, translating […]
Digital Death Drive is a dip into finding poetic inspiration via digital technology. In class, we'll briefly discuss the ethics and theories of technology as a means of artistic production, weaving in the history of techno music. Then we'll launch into different means of unlocking a poetic flow through use of personal technology. Please be […]
Some poems, like some songs, are hits, bops, bangers. They stick in our heads and we can't stop humming along. What distinguishes a hit from a flop? And how can we learn how to write hit poems? In this workshop, we'll read a sample of hit poems, talk about what makes them tick, then write […]