Join us on Saturday, October 30, 2021 from 4:00pm – 5:30pm Central for a generative workshop with featured poet Jordan E. Franklin.
A persona poem is a piece written from the perspective of a figure either real or fictionalized. While a persona can be seen as a way to escape one’s self, it can actually open up the writer to speak on issues they are afraid to tackle face-to-face. In this workshop, we will explore our difficult obsessions through the lens of characters that fascinate us, either real or imagined.
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Recommended for participants 16 years and above.
The reading will take place virtually via Zoom with Zoom auto captions, and an ASL interpreter will be present. CART service will also be provided. Access copies of all poems will be provided via Google Docs.
Register for the virtual workshop by clicking on the “Registration” button on the Eventbrite page, donating any amount you can, and entering the required fields. You will receive an email with the Zoom information.
Suggested donation of $5.
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FEATURED READER:
Jordan E. Franklin is a poet from Brooklyn, NY. An alumna of Brooklyn College, she earned her MFA from Stony Brook Southampton where she served as a Turner Fellow. Her work has appeared in the Southampton Review, Breadcrumbs, easy paradise, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Frontier, and elsewhere. She is the winner of the 2017 James Hearst Poetry Prize offered by the North American Review, and a finalist of both the 2018 Nightjar Review Poetry Contest, and the 2019 Furious Flower Poetry Prize.
Her first poetry collection, when the signals come home, was selected as the winner of the 2020 Gatewood Prize and was published by Switchback Books in March 2021. Her poetry chapbook, boys in the electric age, was published by Tolsun Books in August 2021.