Sunday, April 17, 2016 Adult Writing Workshop Timelines: 3e: Past Adult Workshops (Unseen Archive)
“Poem as Dispatch”
Taught by: Cheryl Quimba, poet
Where:
Just Buffalo Writing Center
468 Washington Street @ Mohawk, 2nd Floor
Buffalo, NY 14203
Date: August 16, 2016
Time: 7:00 p.m.–8:30 p.m.
“It is difficult / to get the news from poems / yet men die miserably every day / for lack / of what is found there.”
Using these lines from William Carlos Williams as our starting point, this workshop will explore what happens when we do try to get the news from poetry. We will look, side by side, at news clippings and poems that present the same real world events in radically different ways. We’ll use magazine and newspaper articles as source material to write our own documentary poems that poetically speak to and represent current events.
CHERYL QUIMBA received an MFA in poetry from Purdue University.Her poems have appeared in Dusie, Phoebe, Tinfish, Everyday Genius, 1913, and Horseless Review. She is the author of the poetry collection Nobody Dancing (Publishing Genius) and the chapbook Scattered Trees Grow in Some Tundra (Sunnyoutside Press). With Joe Hall, she co-authored the digital chapbook May I Softly Walk: The Santa Fe Journals (Poetry Crush). Cheryl is the literary editor of Free Inquiry magazine, and she works for Prometheus Books in Amherst, NY.