Join us on Sunday, December 13th 2020 from 2:00pm - 3:00pm Central for a generative workshop with featured poets Jen Karetnick and Sumita Chakraborty.

Beyond the Tip of the Tongue: Revision, Sense, and Play

We invite you to take seriously the fact that revision means to “re-envision,” and that the craft of revision can center play, adventure, and using your physical senses instead of following the fallacious Pied Piper named “perfection.” Change the setting of a poem to include different odors and hues; play Mad-Libs with its diction to create different sounds; cut it up and scramble it out of order to feel it with your hands – the possibilities for re-imagining the sensory memories that your poems embody are endless. Through these revision games using published poems and your own in-progress pieces, along with prompts to generate new work, you will give yourself an opportunity to see your poems anew and listen, feel, and even smell or taste the possibilities that they hold.

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The workshop will take place virtually via Zoom with Otter Live Captions. An ASL interpreter will be present. Access copies of workshop materials will be made available 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 READERS:

Sumita Chakraborty is a poet, essayist, and scholar. She is Helen Zell Visiting Professor in Poetry at the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, where she teaches in literary studies and creative writing. Her poetry has most recently appeared in Poetry, The American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry 2019, Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. Her scholarship appears or is forthcoming in Cultural Critique, Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment, Modernism/modernity, College Literature, and elsewhere. Her debut collection of poetry, Arrow, is out now from Alice James Books in the U.S. and Carcanet Press in the U.K., and it has received coverage in The New York Times, NPR, and The Guardian. Find her on her website at www.sumitachakraborty.com or on Twitter at @chakrabsumita.

Jen Karetnick's fourth collection of poetry is The Burning Where Breath Used to Be (David Robert Books, September 2020). Her fifth full-length book is forthcoming from Salmon Poetry in 2023. She is also the author of five chapbooks, including The Crossing Over, winner of the 2018 Split Rock Review Chapbook Competition. A 2020 winner of the Tiferet Prize for Poetry, she has also been awarded the Hart Crane Memorial Prize, the Romeo Lemay Poetry Prize, and the Anna Davidson Rosenberg prize, among others. Her poems, essays, interviews, satire, and articles have been published widely in publications including TheAtlantic.com, Guernica, McSweeney's, The Missouri Review, and Michigan Quarterly Review. Jen holds an MFA in poetry from University of California, Irvine, and an MFA in fiction from University of Miami. She lives in Miami where she works as a lifestyle journalist, educator, and trade book author. See more at jkaretnick.com.

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Side by side photos of the featured readers are outlined with a white line and displayed over a light blue background. Beneath the photos are the words "Beyond the Tip of the Tongue: Revision, Sense, and Play, with Jen Karetnick & Sumita Chakraborty." Availability of sign language interpretation is indicated by the presence of an icon showing two hands signing in the bottom left corner.

Left photo: The poet and writer Jen Karetnick is visible from the waist up. She smiles with her lips closed while making eye contact with the camera. She wears a raspberry-colored, collared, sleeveless blouse and blue jeans, with her left hand in her pocket and her other arm behind her back. Behind her is a spray of tropical palms. Photo by Zoe Cross.

Right photo: The writer Sumita Chakraborty, visible from the waist up. She is looking to the side and smiling; she wears a navy sweater and glasses. Photo by Ashley Chupp.