In Person: Collage Poetry
Taught by Aimee Herman
Aimee Herman is an educator and the author of two full-length books of poetry and a novel. Their work has been featured in BOMB, cream city review, and Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (Nightboat Books). They have facilitated creative writing workshops at Brooklyn Public Library, the Bowery Poetry Club and various other spots in NYC.
Here is a chance to gather, use inspiration from found art, grocery lists, unfinished love notes, magazine and newspaper clippings to create something new. Something yours. Something from your imagination. We will utilize the cut-up technique (taking language from two or more different sources), blackout poetry (removing language) and poetry prompts to inspire the poetry from deep within us. Whether you have written many poems before or always wanted to, this is the workshop for you.
Freel free to bring: old magazines, newspapers, receipts from your pocket, letters or cards you haven't thrown away, incomplete artwork you are hoping to finish one day, any bits of words, texture, even sounds to encourage our language to flow!!! Materials will also be provided.