Upcoming Poetry Workshops at Sebastopol Center for the Arts
NEXT UP: MAY 4, 2025 WORKSHOP ON INTERWEAVING FOUND TEXT INTO POETRY: HOSTED BY SEBASTOPOL CENTER FOR THE ARTS
This workshop is part of a Poetry Challenge series which offers more focused writing themes than a generic workshop does. This third and final workshop, which takes place May 4, 2025 from 1 to 3 PM is being held iat the Sebastopol Center for the Arts.
Modernist writers, including T.S. Eliot and Marianne Moore, experimented with incorporat
This workshop is part of a Poetry Challenge series which offers more focused writing themes than a generic workshop does. This third and final workshop, which takes place May 4, 2025 from 1 to 3 PM is being held iat the Sebastopol Center for the Arts.
Modernist writers, including T.S. Eliot and Marianne Moore, experimented with incorporating found text into their poetry. The goal? To explore a subject through multiple perspectives and voices, thus adding dimension or depth to the subject. Incorporating other voices also places less emphasis on the “I” of authorship.
In the first thirty minutes of the class the instructor will cover the concept of found text and provide examples, from his own work and from the work of others, on how text may be interwoven into a poem. For the following thirty minutes, participants will work with their own found text and lines of poetry with the goal of completing one or more draft poems. In the final thirty minutes, participants will be given the opportunity to share and discuss their work.