Poetry Without Borders opens physical, spiritual, geographical, poetical, and social landscapes for the writer to explore. As a launching point to your borderless poem, talk to a stranger. Or collect exchanges from some other casual meeting, real or imagined. It could be with a personality, a writer, or an artist. Maybe someone you’d like to talk to, but don’t. What would you say to them? The task is to have a conversation with a stranger, someone you meet in a coffee shop, work, etc. During or after the conversation, make notes to yourself as best you can–doesn’t have to be verbatim–snatches of dialogue, images, a start and an end–even if it goes nowhere! Place it in a setting. Don’t limit it to poetry–this work could also be prose or simply dialogue: Write what you said and what you thought you heard them say. It doesn’t need to be polished at all. Rough draft is fine. Treat it as a work in progress.

Optional Homework Ahead of Time

Think about Poetry Without Borders. Bring your thoughts to the workshop as a starting point. After going over an example or two as a group, we’ll look at each person’s “homework” and how to give this unstructured work a frame.

Facebook Event

Sept. 11th Facebook Event link here!

Looking forward to our time together! For this event, we’ll be on Zoom only.

Zoom connection information (Pamela’s zoom, same as last month)

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Extra Info, if needed: Meeting ID: 841 6171 7606
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