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Talk to the Hand(book) (Youth) Categories: Official JB Events Timelines: 3b: Past Workshops (Unseen Archive), 4: Laura Marris Workshops & Events

Talk to the Handbook - Fall 2020 Youth Writing Workshops - Just Buffalo - Buffalo NY

How many times have we been sent instructions that actually make the task more complicated? In this workshop, we will explore the underrated poetry of handbooks and manuals, and their history as small texts that fit in a pocket and help to shed light on some piece of the world. We will look at real how-to manuals (like A Handbook of Poisonous Snakes), poetry anthologies (like A Handbook of Heartbreak), and other creative works that boldly declare themselves as guides. Each participant will leave the workshop with an alternative handbook of their own making. This workshop is open to all genres, and no previous writing experience is necessary!

Where: Online Workshop
Date: Tuesday, October 27, 2020
Time: 4:30 p.m.–6:00 p.m.

TO REGISTER:
Email Writing Center Coordinator Robin Jordan at rjordan@justbuffalo.org.
This workshop is FREE, aimed at young students aged 12–18, and limited to 8 participants.

Laura Marris

About the Teaching Artist

LAURA MARRIS’ poems appear or are forthcoming in The Yale Review, The North American Review, The Cortland Review, The Volta, Washington Square Review, and elsewhere. Recent translations include Paol Keineg’s Triste Tristan and Other Poems (co-translated with Rosmarie Waldrop for Burning Deck Press), and she is completeing a new translation of Albert Camus’ The Plague. Her work has been supported by a MacDowell Colony Fellowship and a Daniel Varoujan Award from the New England Poetry Club. She teaches creative writing at the University at Buffalo.

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