PSNY Virtual Workshop: Wordplay

With poet Allison Boenig!

As a poet herself, Allison often unlocks new poems by finding new ways to jest at her subject matter, jest with herself, play along side the speaker, and unlock new, unintended meaning in her poems by way of wordplay. Breaking words apart, almost finishing them but not quite, hyphenating parts of two similar or dissimilar words are all ways in which she calls on wordplay to enliven what the poem may go on to say. She is thrilled to teach a workshop about Wordplay in poetry, and invite others to explore what wordplay can unlock for them in their own work!

About the Instructor: Allison Leilani Boenig (she/they) is a Brooklyn based poet, producer, actor, and matchmaker. She is perennially curious about creating new personas, taking on new identities through her art. Her curiosities in her poetry are always changing, and right now, they are as follows: things we collectively decide are ugly, the erotic in the innocuous, alter egos unlocked through dance and movement, dank odors and dreams.

* *This workshop will take place on Zoom.**