Students will leave the four-week session with five revised poems. Please bring one poem to the first session on any topic. Together students will write four more poems through the four- week session and compile a chapbook. We will focus on craft not content in this poetry workshop, and explore how employing white space, caesuras, the em dash and elliptical poetry can strengthen your poems. We will read and study C.D. Wright, Simon Ortiz, Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, Adrienne Rich and Jean Valentine.
Poetry Workshop: Arts & Resistance Through Craft (or How to Write a Better Political Poem)
Angela (Angie) Trudell Vasquez is a 2nd and 3rd generation Mexican-American writer, editor, publisher, and the former Poet Laureate of Madison, Wisconsin (2020-2024). She holds an MFA in poetry from the Institute of American Indian Arts. Finishing Line Press published her collections, In Light, Always Light, in May 2019, and My People Redux, in January 2022. In 2021, she attended the Macondo Writers Workshop started by Sandra Cisneros, and became a fellow, also known as a Macondista. In 2020 she published and co-edited a poetry anthology of Wisconsin poets, Through This Door, through her small press Art Night Books.
Portrait by Nicole Taylor
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