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Creative Semester: Poetry

Online N/A, Portland

IPRC Creative Writing Workshops for Winter 2021 will be held online via zoom, PST. Register here Taught by Catie Hannigan, Creative Semester is a new hybrid creative writing workshop that brings together creative practice, generative writing, critical discussion and an exploration of bookforms. With an emphasis on continual creative engagement participants will learn four bookforms in tandem with monthly generative writing prompts. The workshop will also incorporate asynchronous community engagement, with ample opportunity to give and receive feedback on creative work. Over the course of 6 months, participants will be challenged to explore craft choices through journaling & creative writing prompts, and assigned readings and book discussions. Participants will come away with four hand-crafted bookarts projects, a suite of new poems, and a creative community.…

$825

April Open Mic feat. Catherine Weiss

Online N/A, Portland

Join us for our April Open Mic! Sign ups will be available in the event 30 minutes before we start! You will have 3 minutes to read 1-2 poems. We will have a feature from Catherine Weiss! More about Catherine: Catherine Weiss (she/they) is a poet and artist from Maine. Her poetry has been published or is forthcoming in Tinderbox, Up the Staircase, Fugue, Okay Donkey, perhappened, Bodega, Counterclock, Hobart After Dark, and Flypaper Lit. They were the 2017 Grand Slam Champion and the 2018 WOWPS rep of Northampton Poetry. Their debut full-length collection will be published by Game Over Books in 2021. You can find Catherine at most any New England agricultural fair — she’s the one admiring the blue ribbon hog, covered in…

Free