Name: "These Mountains Know My Name: Celebrating Poetry"
Start: 2024-10-19T10:00:00-07:00
End: 2024-10-19T14:00:00-07:00
Location: Scottsdale Community College

A generative creative writing workshop and networking event celebrating poetry, place, and identity. All skill levels and genres welcome!
About this Event

These Mountains Know My Name: Celebrating Poetry

To spark ideas for creative writing, workshop participants will investigate how the poetic process connects us to our communitites and ourselves. Through a series of exploratory writing exercises led by Scottsdale Poet Laureate Lois Roma-Deeley, participants will investigate how their personal histories, Southwest culture, and relationship to the natural world may inspire, shape and inform their writing. We'll celebrate what matters most to us--the place we're in, the places we know, the places we love.

The October PoetryFest will also feature opportunities to interact with local creative writing and arts organizations. Enjoy this half-day supporitve community of writers!

What's Your Story?

Get inspired!

Workshop leaders:

Lois Roma-Deeley, PhD., MFA, Poet Laureate of Scottsdale

Kim Sabin, MFA, Director of Creative Writing, Scottsdale Community College

This event is made possible by the Academy of American Poets with funds from the Mellon Foundation as well as with generous support from the Creative Writing Program of Scottsdale Community College.