It’s All About Me: Finding Your Place in the World and the Poem
A Workshop with Alexis Sears
Workshop Leader: Alexis Sears
Date: Sunday, April 19
Time: 2pm Eastern
Duration: 2-hours
Cost: $25 (sliding scale)
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Readings are recorded and shared with all who register.
Workshop Description
In this single-session workshop, we’ll explore the art of writing the self without falling into cliché, diary-entry confessionalism. Students will craft intentional self-portraits in poetry, distinguish between various personas, and discuss the ethics surrounding writing about people we know. We’ll engage in generative exercises, close readings, and workshop discussions to transform personal experience into powerful, surprising poetry.
About The Workshop Leader
Alexis Sears is the author of Out of Order, winner of the 2021 Donald Justice Poetry Prize and the Poetry by the Sea Book Award: Best Book of 2022. Her work appears in Best American Poetry, Poet Lore, Cortland Review, Cimarron Review, Subtropics, and elsewhere. She earned her MFA in poetry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her BA in Writing Seminars from Johns Hopkins University. She lives in Los Angeles.
Alexis Sears! I met her after attending one of her AWP panels and have her fabulous book, Out of Order. I’m so sorry to miss this workshop–I’ll be on the road from Syracuse on that day (unless I can figure out something different).