Free
FREE writing workshop: Everyday Awe: Making Extraordinary Poems from Your Ordinary Experience.
Date and time
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MixHaus Gallery
716 High Street Comfort, TX 78013About this event
- 1 hour 30 minutes
Free
Come join us at MixHaus Gallery for a one-of-a-kind event sponsored by TCA and the Texas Heritage Music Foundation!
FREE WRITING WORKSHOP WITH POET CARRIE FOUNTAIN
June 7, 2024 | 10 am - 11:30 am | MixHaus Gallery
Everyday Awe: Making Extraordinary Poems from Your Ordinary Experience
A poet’s experience of the world is the very basis for their art. So why do we often feel like the lives we’re living aren’t interesting or meaningful enough to yield great poetry? In this generative, inclusive, encouragement-fueled workshop, your everyday life is the only prerequisite for entrance into the craft of writing and reading poetry. Have you ever had an experience? If so, this workshop is for you.
Materials: writing materials and nothing else.
Level: ALL are welcome!
About Carrie Fountain:
Carrie Fountain is a poet, novelist, and children’s book author. She is the author of three poetry collections, The Life, Instant Winner, and Burn Lake, winner of the National Poetry Series Award, and the novel I’m Not Missing. Her recent children’s book, The Poem Forest, tells the story of American poet W.S. Merwin and the palm forest he grew from scratch on the island of Maui. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, American Poetry Review and the New Yorker, among many others. In 2019, Fountain was named Poet Laureate of Texas. She lives in Austin.