Join award-winning author and Lilly Professor/Poet-in-residence Adrian Matejka for a poetry workshop that will follow the extensive and diverse poetry history of Indianapolis.
Starting with James Whitcomb Riley and continuing through poets such as Etheridge Knight, Mari Evans — and more recently Mitchell L.H. Douglas and Karen Kovacik, and Norbert Kropft — writers have been reimagining the various geographies of Indianapolis as poems. This workshop will look at poets – past and present – who have used Indianapolis as a catalyst for their work. Participants will then generate their own poems that address the city in all of its different curiosities.
FREE. Participants must be 18 and older.
2016/07/30 - 2016/07/30
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This workshop is for those who want to practice their craft, deepen their creativity and relationship to place. All skill-levels are welcome.
This workshop is are part of StreamLines, an interactive, place-based project that merges the sciences and the arts to advance the community’s understanding and appreciation of Indianapolis waterways. These free workshops are part of a National Science Foundation grant administered by the Center for Urban Ecology at Butler University. Visit StreamLines.org for more information.
About Adrian Matejka
Adrian Matejka is the Lilly Professor/Poet-in-Residence at Indiana University in Bloomington. Matejka is the author of The Devil’s Garden (Alice James Books, 2003) and Mixology (Penguin, 2009). His most recent collection, The Big Smoke (Penguin, 2013), was awarded the 2014 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and was also a finalist for the 2013 National Book Award, 2014 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and 2014 Pulitzer Prize in poetry. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, and United States Artists. His new collection of poems about Indianapolis, Map to the Stars, is forthcoming from Penguin USA in March 2017.
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1125 Cruft Street, Indianapolis, IN 46203