What's Eating You: Writing About Food
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
5:30pm - 7:30pm PT
One-Time Generative Writing Class
via Zoom
ABOUT THIS CLASS
In this culinary-inspired workshop we will explore the works of poets like Jane Wong, Danez Smith, Chen Chen to discover how contemporary poets “eat” within their poems. Learn tactics for cooking food into poetry and discover the metaphorical depth of food as a love language. We will encounter themes of rot, scarcity, indulgence, and doubt.
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!