About this Event
Two-part workshop on Saturdays
Jan 25 and Feb 1, 2025
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Through exploring Brian Eno’s and Yoko Ono’s writing as prompts, writing our own, listening to music, responding to guided visualizations, and viewing our writing as musically enriched exercises, we’ll develop new pathways as we shape written memories, poems, or fiction into whatever we consider art. We’ll go outside, improvise collective writing, and share our own pieces aloud at the end of the workshop. Logo c/o Uncomfortable Club.
Offered twice online via Corporeal. Now taught in person for the first time.
Alex Behr is the author of Planet Grim: Stories (7.13 Books) and is writing a second collection for 7.13, to be published the spring of 2026.
She is the co-author of the short fiction chapbook Cold Plum Wine (Picture Frame Press) and the author of the poetry chapbook Grief Stick (Picture Frame Press).
She received an MFA in creative writing from Portland State. She has taught intermediate fiction at the college level, creative writing residencies at Portland high schools for 10 years through Literary Arts’ Writers in the Schools and at the Portland Book Festival, online at Corporeal Writing, and new in 2025, in person at Up Up Books, The Attic, and Literary Arts.
Her interviews, essays, poems, and short fiction have appeared widely, including in Salon, Tin House, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Cleaver, X-R-A-Y, Propeller, The Rumpus, Oregon ArtsWatch, Oregon Humanities, Lumina, Portland Review, and Gravity of the Thing.
She has participated in and/or organized numerous readings in Portland, San Francisco, and New York City, and has contributed her writing to a podcast, cable TV show, and other media projects.
What Past Participants Are Saying About Alex’s Workshops!
"Alex’s class presentations opened new, imaginative paths to creativity for me using music, poetry, and the work of Brian Eno, Yoko Ono, Matthew Salesses, Michael Ondaatje and other brilliant writers. Alex’s insights are deep, original and funny. I loved the class and will sign up for more."
—Peter
“I’m so enjoying your class — the exercises, the journal, the new pathways to writing — thank you for offering it into the world."
—Margaret
"I’d rarely want to take a lab more than once, but I would return because I could get new material from the same portals/prompts, ideas, and leading that you did. This is one of THE best labs I’ve ever taken at Corporeal Writing. Hands down. You are a brilliant teacher."
—Katie
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Up Up Books, 1211 Southeast Stark Street, Portland, United States
USD 108.55
