“Is there a beast or a plant that’s always called to you; a bird on a branch, a wolf in the snow, a beach rose? Do you think of this being as a guide? A companion? A potential tattoo? In this generative poetry workshop, we’ll choose a creature and, through prompts, start to build a poem.”

“How do I artistically enter into something that feels bigger than myself? Writing exercises will offer participants a way to start; to approach topics and subjects that may intimidate them as writers, and find that through embracing one’s self-voice, history, and experiences—as a source of intelligence, we see who we are and what we put forth as distinctive, new, enlarging, and necessary.”