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Craft Lab w/ Joy Priest
Sun, June 18, 5–8 PM (ET)

Early registration is now open for our next craft lab on June 18, "Making Something New: Where Imagination Enters the Poetic Process," led by Joy Priest! Register by June 11 to save $15, or request financial aid through June 16. Members can take $25 off at any time.

Let’s say it out loud: I fear I’m not as creative as I’m supposed to be as a poet. Omg. What if everyone discovers my secret? I’m a fraud, not an artist but an aimless wanderer who wandered up on something good that very one time. Please. Look at the world we live in! The bland force of late capitalism and the propriety of adulthood works hard on us. The habitual speech of politicians, corporate America and social media is a linguistic quicksand we wade through as poets. And it’s fun to counteract. It’s what we do. We say things in a new way. We displace and disrupt speech as usual. We restore meaning. But how? How do we relocate the creativity and imagination of our younger selves? What is imagination exactly? How do we recognize it when it shows up and how does it show up in our process? Is it internal inspiration from a mystic thunder perfect mind? Or is it external—a poetics of attention, what we notice and use? This high-energy, three-hour craft lab will be like speed-dating the populace of our dormant imaginations. We’ll cycle through strategies, examples and prompts, looking at poems by poets such as K. Iver, Mary-Alice Daniel, Ama Codjoe, Vievee Francis, Joshua Burton, Carl Phillips and Will Alexander. We’ll address imagination at every stage of the process, from forming an idea to revision.

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