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Generative Poetry Workshops: Take 'Em or Teach 'Em
Friday, February 9, 2024
9:00 am to 10:15 am
A generative poetry workshop can get you there or help you break through. This panel addresses best practices from both teacher and student points of view. Teachers: structure a generative workshop and deploy methods beneficial to and inclusive of a wide variety of workshoppers. Students: identify strategies for framing expectations and seek definitions of success beyond yielding a few solid drafts. Panelists will address their own experiences as teachers, students, and the blurred role between.
Participants
L.J. Sysko is the author of The Daughter of Man (University of Arkansas Press, 2023), selected by Patricia Smith for the Miller Williams Poetry Series. Her work has appeared in The Georgia Review, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. She is director of executive communications at Delaware State University.
Maya C. Popa is the author of Wound is the Origin of Wonder (W.W. Norton & Picador, UK) and American Faith (Sarabande), winner of the 2020 North American Book Prize. The poetry reviews editor of Publishers Weekly, she holds a PhD from Goldsmiths and University of London, and teaches at NYU and elsewhere.
Kim Addonizio has published a dozen books of poetry and prose. Her latest are a poetry collection, Now We're Getting Somewhere, and a memoir, Bukowski in a Sundress: Confessions from a Writing Life. She is author of the writing guides The Poet's Companion (with Dorianne Laux) and Ordinary Genius.
Flower Conroy is an LGBTQIA+ writer and artist, NEA and MacDowell Fellow, and former Key West Poet Laureate whose books include Snake Breaking Medusa Disorder, A Sentimental Hairpin, and Greenest Grass. Her/their poetry has appeared in numerous journals.
Sandra Beasley is author of four poetry collections, most recently Made to Explode, as well as Don’t Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life, a disability memoir. She lives in Washington, DC, and teaches with the University of Nebraska Omaha low-residency MFA in creative writing.
