The 5 Forms Workshop
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
5:30pm - 8:00pm PT
One-Time Generative Writing Class
via Zoom
ABOUT THIS CLASS
Last year we wrote about the 5 Forms We Were Curious About, join us Tuesday, April 8 as we put these forms into action with the 5 Forms Workshop. This 2.5 hour collaboratively taught class will dive into confessional narrative poems, odes, postcard poems, ribcages, and erasure poems. Each form will be presented with a mini-lesson on the craft, sample poem, and writing prompt for you to try for yourself.
Whether you're a seasoned poet or a budding writer there’s something here for you to explore: elevate your craft with an evocative narrative, celebrate the mundane through with an ode, capture a snapshot of time in a postcard, structure your feelings in a ribcages, or uncover the power of the unsaid in erasure. We’re putting our maximum creative efforts into this interactive workshop in celebration of National Poetry Month. Join us!
ABOUT THE SERIES
Sliding scale/affordably priced poetry class!
The Poetry Lab is a community learning space dedicated to mentoring and encouraging poets and writers as they craft their learning journeys. We started in a co-work space in Downtown Long Beach in 2013. Meeting twice a month, our Labs covered topics like Diction, Tone, and Voice, Poetry of Twitter, Power of Revision, and Blind Date with a Book. In other words, these workshops were fun and instructional, often taking non-traditional approaches to poetry.
The BrainTrust series carries on this tradition in one virtual session per month. As always, everyone is welcome here. That means first-time poets, moms and dads, high school students, architects, professors, gamers, and artists of all genres and mediums are welcome to attend as long as they are ready to write!
