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Write ME Epistolary Poetry Workshop with Valerie Lawson

  • Eastport Arts 36 Washington Street Eastport, ME United States (map)

An In-Person Poetry Workshop

As part of the Write ME project, poet Valerie Lawson will lead a free epistolary poetry workshop. Please register by clicking on the button below.

Valerie writes, “We’ll explore the power of connection through the unique qualities of letter-writing—its intimacy, ritual, and physicality—through examples of epistolary poems and letter-writing in verse and prose, reimagine poems as a missive sent to a specific reader, and generate our own writing, creating meaningful correspondence that bridges distance and brings presence to the absent.”


Valerie Lawson is an English instructor for Washington County Adult & Community Education and has taught workshops in writing, performance, and the business of writing in Maine and Massachusetts. Her work has been published in Café ReviewAbout Place JournalThe CatchMaine Farms, and many others as well as performing a spoken word poetry throughout New England and beyond.