Poetry Writing Workshop for Beginners

This poetry workshop for beginners will introduce participants to a variety of poets and provide an opportunity to produce written work of their own. Through the introduction of poetry texts and techniques, participants will develop insight into the writing process, and define what that means to them. This generative writing workshop nurtures space for participants to improve writing skills. We’ll discuss the significance of poetry as it relates to place/nature, the intersections of our identities, and we’ll explore our origin stories. Through a series of prompts, we’ll re-envision personal histories and examine words, experiences, and places that sometimes empower, sometimes free, and sometimes entrap us.
 

Nicole Santalucia is the author of The Book of Dirt (NYQ Books), Spoiled Meat (Headmistress Press), and Because I Did Not Die (Bordighera Press). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in publications such as Colorado Review, Palette Poetry, The Best American Poetry, Los Angeles Review, North American Review, Sonora Review, Fourteen Hills, The Cincinnati Review, The Rumpus, The Normal School, Out Magazine and elsewhere. She is an Associate Professor, the Director of First-Year Writing, co-chair of the LGBTQ+ Advisory Council, and she serves on the steering committee of the Institute for Social Inclusion at Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania. She has led poetry workshops in the Cumberland County Prison, Shippensburg and Harrisburg Public Libraries, the Boys & Girls Club, nursing homes, and she’s the founder of The Binghamton Poetry Project.
 

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