FRIDAYS, Dec. 5th - 19th | What do the things we keep say about who we are?
From heirloom jewelry to a cracked bowl, from a watch ticking through generations to a phone filled with unsent messages, objects hold our deepest stories. In this three-week generative poetry workshop, we’ll explore how poets turn the physical world into vessels of emotion, history, and identity. Each session includes close readings of contemporary poets, craft discussion, and guided prompts designed to generate new poems.
By the end of this course, participants will:
• Examine how poets use objects as portals to memory, lineage, and transformation.
• Generate at least four new poems centered on material or symbolic objects.
• Practice metaphor, personification, and associative logic.
• Learn to let things speak—discovering what the object knows that the speaker does not.
For poets of all levels. Each week includes readings, generative writing, and space for sharing new work.