Open Mouth Presents: Personas Unknown with Jordan E. Franklin

The Open Mouth Literary Center is a community-based poetry center located in Fayetteville, Arkansas. We host a readings, workshops, classes, festivals and retreats featuring poets whose work we love.

The Open Mouth Literary Center

A generative writing workshop with poet Jordan E. Franklin

Join us on Saturday, October 30, 2021 from 4:00pm - 5:30pm Central for a generative workshop with featured poet Jordan E. Franklin.We will award prizes to the best costumes at each event. Additionally, there will be drawings for prizes at each event. To enter the drawings, write a poem in response to any of our social media festival prompts and tag us! The more prompts you respond to, the more entries you receive. Prizes will be copies of books from our festival features.WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION: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. **Recommended for participants 16 years and above.ACCESS NOTES: The reading will take place virtually via Zoom, 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 &quot;Registration&quot; 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.NOTE: If you are unable to donate at this time, simply enter $1.00 as your donation amount (not zero because Eventbrite won’t let you continue unless you type something other than zero) and click &quot;check out,&quot; then click &quot;pay at the door&quot; as your payment option. Once you have filled out all required fields, you will still be able to register, and you can keep your dollar.Every donation to Open Mouth Literary Center supports our programming, ASL interpreters, and feature poets. Become a monthly patron on Patreon or make a one-time donation at our PayPal or to our GoFundMe campaign.Sponsors for this year&#x27;s poetry festival include our Open Mouth supporters on Patreon and the ARt Connect program. The ARt Connect program is generously supported by the Walmart Foundation and implemented by Mid-America Arts Alliance in partnership with the Creative Arkansas Community Hub &amp; Exchange (CACHE) of the Northwest Arkansas Council. Additional support for Mid-America Arts Alliance is from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Texas Commission on the Arts, and foundations, corporations and individuals throughout Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas. **FEATURED POET: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, <a href="https://www.switchbackbooks.com/product-page/when-the-signals-come-home" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">when the signals come home</a>, was selected as the winner of the 2020 Gatewood Prize and was published by Switchback Books in March 2021. Her poetry chapbook,<a href="https://tolsunbooks.com/shop/boys-in-the-electric-age" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> boys in the electric age</a>, was published by Tolsun Books in August 2021.EVENT HEADER IMAGE DESCRIPTION:Left Side: The poet Jordan E. Franklin is visible from the neck up. She stares at the camera, her expression dreamlike. Her head is wrapped and held up with bobby pins. Photo by J.E. Franklin. The photo is surrounded by a white border. Right side: The words &quot;Open Mouth Presents Jordan E. Franklin October 30, 2021&quot; in bold black superimposed over a light blue background.

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