Get out your sharpies and scissors! In this generative and interactive poetry workshop, you’ll blackout, cut up, rearrange and reconfigure existing written works to create new poems.
During this workshop, participants will deepen their understanding of the uses, freedoms, limitations and (often) polarizing effects of found poetry. They will also consider whether found poetry is a mode of conversation, a means of inspiration, a subversive act, all or none of the above, or something else entirely. All participants will have the opportunity to share work composed during the workshop. Both emerging and established poets are welcome.
Elena Bentley (MA English, University of Toronto) is a multi-genre writer and proud Métis aunty. Her poetry chapbook, taliped, was a finalist for the 2022 Vallum Chapbook Award and was recently published by 845 Press. Her poems can be found in various literary journals, including Arc Poetry, Room, The Malahat Review, and PRISM international. She is the interim editor for Grain Magazine.
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