Events
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Unless specifically noted, our programs are free, virtual and suited for participants ages 16+. For further details about what to expect from our workshops, including accessibility options, and registration & Zoom instructions, click here.
Remix Poetry: A Path of Discovery with Darnell Arnoult — An Online Creative Writing Workshop in Partnership with Strathmore
Creative writing is a tool for knowing yourself, understanding the world, and connecting with other people. Led by author Seema Reza and accomplished guest writers—including poets, memoirists, novelists, and storytellers—these generative community workshops follow the model developed by Community Building Art Works (CBAW) over the course of a decade of bringing people together in military and hospital settings. Each workshop is designed to help participants put their personal stories on paper in a supportive environment.
Whether you’re just starting out or have been writing for years, you are welcome; no experience is required. Bring a pen, a notebook, and an open mind!
Remix Poetry: A Path of Discovery with Darnell Arnoult
About This Workshop
In this playful and generative workshop, we’ll discover the art of remix poetry. We’ll break apart existing texts and reconfigure words into new phrases, lines, and stanzas thereby building new wholly original poems. For beginning or experienced poets. Be ready to embrace the unexpected.
Darnell Arnoult is the author of the poetry collections INCANTATIONS (Madville Publishing), GALAXIE WAGON and WHAT TRAVELS WITH US (LSU Press) and the novel SUFFICIENT GRACE (Simon & Schuster). Shorter works in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have been published in numerous literary journals. She has been awarded the SIBA Poetry Book of the Year, Weatherford Award, Thomas and Lillie D Chaffin Award, and the Mary Frances Hobson Prize for Distinguished Achievement in Arts and Letters. For 10 years she was writer-in-residence at Lincoln Memorial University where she directed the Mountain Heritage Literary Festival, Arts in the Gap, Appalachian Young Writers Workshop, and was a founding editor of Drafthorse Literary Journal. She now lives in Mebane, NC. Find Darnell on Instagram and Facebook.
This workshop will be recorded and a link to the recorded version is available for registered participants only, upon request. The recorded version is edited for participant privacy and focuses on the instructor’s lessons. Our partners at Strathmore want these workshops to be as accessible as possible, so they are priced as “pay what you can.” You will be prompted to enter an amount of your choice when you register. (If you are registering for free, please enter $0.) If you are able to pay for these workshops, every dollar goes to support Strathmore’s education programs.
NOTE: This is a fully online event. When you register, your ticket email from tickets@strathmore.org will include a seat number, but remember that this is a virtual-only experience. The workshop takes place on Zoom, and you’ll receive the access link via email from strathmore@strathmore.org at approximately 4 PM Eastern Time on the day of the event. Click to view samples of the ticket email (HERE) and the zoom link email (HERE) for the Strathmore events.
