Writing the Body: A Generative Poetry Workshop
Register here for Lex’s workshop.
In this generative poetry workshop, we will explore and produce writing grounded in the body and its unique memory. We’ll read and discuss a variety of contemporary examples, finding new ways into our own writing through mindful remembering and prompts inspired by the readings that will also incorporate visual art, sensory objects, and language games.
Lex Orgera writes poetry, hybrid nonfiction, and a newsletter called Yard Dragon exploring the intersections of nature, culture, and spirit. Orgera’s books include How Like Foreign Objects and Dust Jacket, and a memoir-in-fragments, Head Case: My Father, Alzheimer’s & Other Brainstorms. A new book of poems, Agatha, about body autonomy, is forthcoming from Jackleg Press. Orgera has taught high school and college writing, many community-based workshops, and is the inaugural Executive Director of Greensboro Bound Literary Festival.
“Visitations, devastations, genetic codes, feared genetic legacies, the history and the science of tangles, plaques, even vascular dementia—it is all there, unsparingly there, in Head Case. Sometimes grammar isn’t big enough to contain the story, and words ram into words. Certainly, chronology has no place in this; bewilderment sets the pace. Still, and always, Orgera is clear-eyed and specific, she is specifically heartbroken, mired at times in her own breakdowns, clawing her way out of migraines and loss. Clawing, and then lifting.”—Beth Kephart, Wife | Daughter | Self: a memoir in essay
Register here for Lex’s workshop.
One full scholarship is available. Click here to apply.
If a payment plan would make the workshop more feasible, let us know at scuppernongeditions@gmail.com.
