In this generative workshop, we’ll experiment with building a narrative poem, starting with the fiction writer’s question, What If? and a playful handful of poem-starters. Expect to surprise yourself, enjoy yourself and come away with a few tricks for kick-starting a poem.

Catherine Doty is the author of Momentum, a volume of poems from Cavan Kerry Press. Her work has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, among them Garrison Keillor’s  More Good Poems for Hard Times  and Billy Collins’ 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day. She is the recipient of a Marjorie J. Wilson Award, and Academy of American Poets Prize, fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts, and other grants and honors. Ms. Doty has worked as a visiting artist for the Frost Place, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, the New York Public Library, and other organizations.

Rosalind Brackenbury | Cricket Desmarais | Catherine Doty | Barry George | Lee Gurga | Richard Grusin

Bob Muens | Dr. Michael Wyndham Thomas | Charles Trumbull