A Poetry Workshop
The process poem isn't an official term. But you've likely seen this type of poem before, where the poet takes a regular task of some sort and uses it as the vehicle for telling a secondary narrative. Poems often have multiple modes they're trying to access, multiple points they're trying to make, but juggling two distinct narratives and making sure they intersect enough to keep them as one poem can sometimes be a task in an of itself. In this workshop we'll look at poems from Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Patricia Smith, Seamus Heaney, among others. We'll examine the benefit of writing a process poem and how it acts as a container, as a type of form for sometimes harder to tell stories. Process poems might seem simple at first glance, but they're layered poems with the potential to tease out of you a deeper level of storytelling you might not have accessed otherwise.
$70 Members/$100 Nonmembers
Jessica Nirvana Ram is an Indo-Guyanese poet. She is the author of the poetry collection Earthly Gods (Variant Literature, 2024) and the chapbook in the aftermath (Prismatica Press, 2024). Her work has appeared in Hayden's Ferry Review, Prairie Schooner, Honey Literary, and elsewhere. Jessica was a 2022-23 Stadler Fellow, she currently works as the Publicity and Outreach Manager for the Stadler Center for Poetry and Literary Arts. She is the Director of Sticky Fingers at Honey Literary, a poetry reader for Split Lip Magazine and Okay Donkey Magazine, a poetry editor for Variant Literature, and an Associate Editor for West Branch. You can find her on twitter @jessnirvanapoet.
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