Seven Lyrical Questions - A Poetry Workshop

We so often perceive writing to be a solitary activity, but writers are often inspired by what they read, what they hear, and what they experience in the world. In other words, writing rarely takes place in a vacuum. This collaborative workshop will aid writers as they generate ideas and, just as important, concrete details and images necessary for writing strong poems through focused conversation with another person. Participants can expect to meet and interview a workshop partner in order to mine stories, images, and details that will help them write a poem, which they may choose to share at the end of the session.

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Bios: Deni Naffziger is the author of two full-length collections of poetry, Desire To Stay (Stockport Flats Press, 2014) and Strange Bodies (Shadelandhouse Modern Press, 2023), A Story of Flying (a children's coloring tale supported by the Ohio Arts Council, 2006, translated into Spanish…