Saturday, March 1st, 2025, 10:00AM-12:00PM
Meeting will take place in the Poetry Center's Alumni Room, Room 205; limit 12 students. General registration will open on Tuesday, December 17th at 10:00AM.
In this generative writing session, we’ll write our lives as they exist in conversation with pop culture and mass media. We’ll start by reading some model texts (by artist-poets such as Tracie Morris, Divya Victor, Morgan Parker, and Chen Chen) to help us think about why and how and when a writer might engage with the screen. Then we’ll turn our curiosity toward a series of open-ended prompts for each of us to write into, both with and without “the TV on.” At the end of this time together we’ll each leave this session not only with plenty of our own in-class writing and some new replicable practices to build on, but with an additional packet of resources (poems, essays, and a prompt) to carry forward in front of the television screens of our choosing. This workshop is open to all, regardless of your relationship with writing or with the TV.