Poets Jeanne Wright, Megan Milks, Alaura Seidl, and Lisa Hollenbach will share work produced during a six week documentary poetics workshop with Lauren Russell. (Expect readings from some of the poets, zines, and food!)
"The documentary mode invites socially conscious approaches to poem making. But when I conceived of the ArtWrite workshop that took place this winter, I wanted to go a little further—extend our work beyond the documentary and think in terms of poems that use documents in all kinds of ways, not just poems that document. In the workshop, participants were encouraged to bring in an archive of documents and approach them through a variety of poetic strategies—erasures, cross-outs, substitutions, juxtapositions—as well as with attention to concerns like point of view and balancing imagery and narrative facts." -Lauren Russell, poet and workshop facilitator