Forms & Features with Heather Christle

Engaging in play strengthens our poetic abilities and our capacity to imagine other ways to move through a day (or a life). This workshop will bring us together to play with language as a group and as individuals. We will lift ourselves and each other out of ruts worn into our minds (whether by predictive text machines or personal habits). We will pick up strings of words and ask, "What would happen if we took this in a different direction?" We will surprise and be surprised in turn.

Through games, collaborative improvisation, and practical writing exercises, you will generate language that you can take home to spark new poems. In some cases, you may create an entire poem during the workshop. The games and exercises are designed to delight and to be shared widely. You can play them later with friends when you (or they) need to connect with a wildness within.

It is probably going to be weird and it is almost certainly going to be fun.

This workshop is for participants aged 18 and older, of all backgrounds and experiences with reading and writing poetry.