If “Poetry is a map to find ourselves” (Michelle Brittan Rosado), then poets are cartographers of the soul. In this generative workshop, writers will consider their own internal landscapes and discover how to map out spaces that are much more than geographical locations. Reading and responding to poems by writers such as Ellen Bass, Kaveh Akbar, Bruce Weigl, Truong Tran, and Chet’la Sebree, they will generate poems in response to prompts that traverse the places of memory, imagination, motivation, and identity. Writers will leave the workshop with the bones of two poems and a map to help them explore their inner selves as place.
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Award winning writer, Kari Ann Ebert, has been published in journals such as Night Heron Barks, Free State Review, Gargoyle, Philadelphia Stories, and Columbia Journal, among others. She is a collage & zine artist and takes her antique typewriters to events writing impromptu poems for the masses. Alphabet of Mo(u)rning (Lily Press, 2022), her limited edition chapbook, is available on her website kariannebert.com.