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The Art of Life: a poetry workshop
Seminar and Workshop
With workshop leader, Fawn Parker
What is poetry if not a gesture toward truth? There are experiences in our lives—moments, events, revelations—that cannot be captured in plain language: the aroma of the oven heating when you received the call with the news; your mother's shoes lined up in the coat closet; the orange November sky over the hospital. A poem can blend senses, images, manipulate language. It can be playful, powerful, and mysterious. In this workshop, students will discuss techniques of incorporating true life experience into poetry and spend some time writing a short memory poem. Topics will include authenticity, subtlety and restraint, and approaches to balancing self-expression and inviting a reader in.About Fawn
Fawn Parker holds an MA in creative writing from the University of Toronto and is a PhD student in creative writing at the University of New Brunswick. She is the author of five books, including the Giller Prize–nominated What We Both Know, the forthcoming Hi, It’s Me, and her debut poetry collection Soft Inheritance, which won the 2024 Fiddlehead Poetry Book Prize as well as the 2024 J.M. Abraham Atlantic Poetry Award.
"Writers' Federation of New Brunswick" is a registered non-profit organization. New Brunswick, Canada.
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