Sunday, November 15th, 1-4pm
The Wander Table poetry workshop invites students to discover poems through attention, visual exploration, and play. Rather than beginning with a preconceived idea or polished draft, participants will engage in a series of writing and collage-based exercises that cultivate curiosity and encourage language to emerge through observation, experimentation, and association.
At the heart of the workshop is the Wander Table—a communal collection of images, colors, textures, found objects, and fragments of language. Participants are invited to wander, gather, and arrange materials that evoke a feeling, memory, question, or atmosphere without needing to explain why. This collage becomes a visual landscape from which new poems can emerge, offering an intuitive entry point into the writing process and encouraging unexpected connections between image, memory, and language.
Throughout this three-hour session, participants will move through a series of generative prompts that emphasize close observation, sensory awareness, constraint, and reflection. Readings from contemporary poets, such as Tarfia Faizullah, Emily Skaja, Erika L. Sánchez, Paisley Rekdal, and Megan Fernandes, among others, will serve as models for experimentation and discussion, while optional sharing throughout the workshop will foster a supportive and encouraging creative community. The emphasis is on generating new work, embracing uncertainty, and developing sustainable creative practices. Students will leave the workshop with one or two poems they can continue to revise.
Sunday, November 15th, 1-4pm
The Wander Table poetry workshop invites students to discover poems through attention, visual exploration, and play. Rather than beginning with a preconceived idea or polished draft, participants will engage in a series of writing and collage-based exercises that cultivate curiosity and encourage language to emerge through observation, experimentation, and association.
At the heart of the workshop is the Wander Table—a communal collection of images, colors, textures, found objects, and fragments of language. Participants are invited to wander, gather, and arrange materials that evoke a feeling, memory, question, or atmosphere without needing to explain why. This collage becomes a visual landscape from which new poems can emerge, offering an intuitive entry point into the writing process and encouraging unexpected connections between image, memory, and language.
Throughout this three-hour session, participants will move through a series of generative prompts that emphasize close observation, sensory awareness, constraint, and reflection. Readings from contemporary poets, such as Tarfia Faizullah, Emily Skaja, Erika L. Sánchez, Paisley Rekdal, and Megan Fernandes, among others, will serve as models for experimentation and discussion, while optional sharing throughout the workshop will foster a supportive and encouraging creative community. The emphasis is on generating new work, embracing uncertainty, and developing sustainable creative practices. Students will leave the workshop with one or two poems they can continue to revise.
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