An Unworkshop Workshop & Micless Open Mic
We write together for an hour or so (sometimes we go over). Prompts, activities, constraints. Then we share what emerged. No microphones, no rigid workshop format.
Two hours, twice monthly. Bring a pen or don't.
We start with a writing activity or prompt. Sometimes it's 45 minutes, sometimes 90. Last session went 1.5 hours of writing. The structure flexes.
Read what you just wrote, something you brought, or nothing at all. No microphone. Your natural voice is enough. We're close enough to hear the words catch in your throat.
Erasure poetry. Villanelles. Sestinas. Exquisite corpse. (Soma)tics.
This isn't a workshop with mandatory critique. If you want thoughts on a piece, ask. Otherwise, reading and being heard is enough.
Pen
Paper
Something you wrote
Or nothing
"The poem is not a puzzle to be solved but a door to walk through."
"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
"Write hard and clear about what hurts."
"We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry."
The space between words matters as much as the words themselves