Kim Dower: Poetry Writing Workshop

300 West Camelback Road,Phoenix AZ 85013

26 April, 2022

Description

This 90 minute poetry workshop is for poets and non-poets alike – for anyone who’d love to know how to plant the seeds for poems to grow. From the instructor: "Our time together will provide an opportunity to mine our memories and experiences, our hearts and feelings and potentially awaken new, startling poems. We will explore the rich soil of our childhoods - the places, and emotions from our past and examine how memory can inform and affect our writing.  After hearing a prompt, we will dive into 'fever writing' or 'automatic writing,' and witness the magic we create!  With Mother’s Day coming up, we will hear prompts that will inspire us to write our own poems – to and about our mothers and mother figures, or just for gifts to ourselves!  Bring nothing but a pad and your favorite pen!" ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR Kim Dower graduated from Emerson College where she also taught Introduction to Creative Writing: Poetry. Poet Laureate of West Hollywood from October, 2016- October, 2018, Kim has published four, highly acclaimed collections of poetry: Air Kissing on Mars, Slice of Moon, Last Train to the Missing Planet, and the IPPY Award-winning collection, Sunbathing on Tyrone Power’s Grave. Kim’s poems have been widely anthologized and appear in journals such as The James Dickey Review, Ploughshares, Barrow Street, Rattle, Plume and The Writer’s Almanac.