USING THE NEWS: A Generative Poetry Workshop with Martha Collins (Zoom)

Please note that this workshop is now sold out! Thanks for all the interest. If you want to be put on the wait list for this workshop, or have questions about other workshop options, please email Dominika Wrozynski, HVWC's Program Director: dominika@writerscenter.org.

How do we respond, as poets, to the increasingly disturbing news of our day, as well as the history that brought us to where we are? This four-hour workshop will begin with an hour-long discussion of poems that artfully respond to contemporary issues (politics, race, immigration, climate change, war) and/or to relevant historical events and situations that continue to impact the present. A major focus will be on using and transforming news accounts, factual information, and historical documents into poems. The last three hours of the workshop will be spent in careful discussion of your own

poems (which may or may not relate to the topic described above:…