Name: handheld: a two-day poetry workshop
Start: 2024-07-20T15:00:00-07:00
End: 2024-07-20T17:00:00-07:00
Location: Office of Collecting and Design

Join local poet Colette LaBouff as we reflect, discuss, and write about what it means to hold something in the palm of our hands.
About this Event

In this workshop we'll reflect on what it means to hold something in the palm of our hands.

There will be two 2-hour sessions. In the first session, we'll spend time with objects in the Office of Collecting & Design and consider the object we want to reflect on, hold or write about. Writers will leave the first session with a reading list of poems about objects for inspiration or reflection as they write their own.

In the second session, we'll meet to talk about the process in a supportive space and share the poem we've each written about the object(s).

THIS IS A TWO-PART EVENT.

The first session will take place on Saturday, July 20th from 3-5pm. The second session will take place on Sunday, July 21 from 3-5pm. Please be sure you are available for both sessions.

About the Instructor: Colette LaBouff is the author of MEAN (U. of Chicago Press 2008), a collection of prose poems, and HOLDINGS (Container 2019), a text-object, as well as other essays and poems.