Instructor: Nick Reading
Date:  Monday, March 16
Time:  6:30-9:30 p.m.
Location: IWC
Cost: $75 nonmembers, $48 members, $42 student members/teacher members/senior members/military members/librarian members

This workshop will focus not only on the prose poem as a form, but will also work to understand how our understanding of prose poems may open up possibilities in our fiction and creative nonfiction writing. We will examine the implications of Russell Edson’s assertion that prose poems are, “A poetry freed from the definition of poetry, and a prose free of the necessities of fiction.” What does this freedom on all fronts look like in poetry, prose, and in our own writing? Whether your life is poetry or prose or a little bit of both our time spent together should result in a better understanding of how language can present transformative opportunities for both the writer and the reader.