Check out the lineup for Black Lawrence Press virtual events!
Dismantling the Details: How to Maximize the Impact of Your Imagery
Instructor: Jennifer Met
Date: November 11
Time: 8:00 PM – 9:30 PM Eastern, Virtual
FREE EVENT
Sometimes a description is so beautiful, so interesting, so apt, that it sticks with a reader forever, making a piece of writing timeless. But how do you generate such imagery without breaching cliché, or worse, without seeming random? I will share some of the varied and surprising things that have influenced how I think about imagery and metaphor. We will talk about a diverse range of subjects including haiku technique, disability studies, and linguistics and how they can be applied to think about imagery in new and creative ways. These introductions will be paired with a large amount of original exercises that can be used to generate exciting descriptions that serve a piece on a larger level. Whatever their preferred writing genre, participants will leave the workshop with creative ways to approach metaphor and repeatable techniques to generate and enhance memorable imagery.
If time allows, please consider reading this craft essay before the workshop: “The Prose Poem and the Startling Image” by Amorak Huey https://www.dmqreview.com/hueyfall22
Jennifer Met is a neurodivergent and partially sighted writer living in the inland northwest. She is the author of the chapbook Gallery Withheld (Glass Poetry Press) and the microchapbooks That Which Sunlight Chases and Alterations (Origami Poems Project). Recent poetry and hybrid prose have been published in Cimarron Review, HAD, the Museum of Americana, Nimrod, Quarterly West, and Superstition Review, among other journals. She serves as Assistant Prose Poetry Editor for Pithead Chapel.
Generative Group Writing Session with Miah Jeffra
Date: November 23
Time: 4-6 pm Eastern, Virtual
Writing our lives is tough. There is so much information and experience to document. How do we do that in a finite number of pages? And, how do we serve such an endeavor with accuracy? We have to contend with our memory, the totality of experience, not to mention the limits of perception and language. This seminar works to address some of these ethical and process-oriented questions with candor, pathos, and hopefully inspiration.
Metaphor and Meaning
Instructor: Erica Wright
Date: December 12
Time: 8:00 PM – 9:30 PM Eastern, Virtual
FREE EVENT