Tuesday, January 9, 2018 Experimenting with Essays Workshop Timelines: 3b: Past Workshops (Unseen Archive)
Cy Twombly, Untitled (New York City), (1968).
Led by: Travis Sharp, poet & editor
Where:
Just Buffalo Writing Center
468 Washington Street @ Mohawk, 2nd Floor
Buffalo, NY 14203
Dates: June 5 & 7, 2018
Time: 4:30 p.m.–5:30 p.m.
In this workshop we’ll explore the creative and playful potential of the essay: how an essay can, like a poem, provide us with new ways of experiencing the world around us. We’ll read and write lyric and formally experimental essays that will help us to push the boundaries of what we think of when we think “essay.” This workshop will honor the etymological origins of “essay,” which has its roots in attempting, trying, and experimenting: to essay is, really, to play and see what happens.
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Travis Sharp is an editor at Essay Press and at the literary journal Small Po[r]tions. He is also a co-curator of bloodofanauthorbox.com and is currently producing a series of ephemeral texts through autodestruct.online. With Aimee Harrison and Maria Anderson, he co-edited Radio: 11.8.16 (Essay Press, 2017). His essays, interviews, and poems have appeared with Columbia Poetry Review, LIT, Bombay Gin, Puerto del Sol, Entropy, The Conversant, and elsewhere. He has an MFA from the University of Washington, Bothell, and is a PhD student in the Poetics Program at SUNY Buffalo.
This workshop is FREE, aimed at young students aged 12–18, and limited to 12 participants.