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A Free Workshop "Write it Weird" and Reading from Sarah Kain Gutowski and Cynthia Marie Hoffman
Sat, Apr 20
|Iowa City
We welcome poets Sarah Kain Gutowski and Cynthia Marie Hoffman to Iowa City on Saturday, April 20th. They will be teaching a joint workshop at 3:30 and will read from their new poetry books "The Familiar" and "Exploding Head" at 5:00. All are welcome.
Time & Location
Apr 20, 2024, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Iowa City, 1019 E Washington St, Iowa City, IA 52240, USA
Guests
About the event
The Workshop: Write It Weird: Our Ordinary Experiences Made Fantastic and Meaningful Through Metaphor and Imagery
Sometimes engaging with the strange, unusual, and unexpected can result in poignant, invaluable insight about our everyday lives. Poets Sarah Kain Gutowski (author of THE FAMILIAR, Texas Review Press), and Cynthia Marie Hoffman (author of EXPLODING HEAD, Persea Books), will lead the audience through a generative writing exercise designed to encourage associative thinking through metaphor and image-building. Participants will then engage in a hands-on revision exercise that breaks away from narrative and gives writers a new method for generating surprising discoveries in their own writing.
This 1 hour event is multi-genre and geared for writers with varying levels of experience, and will include time for workshop participants to share what they’ve created.
Their books: The Familiar by Sarah Kain Gutowski and Exploding Head by Cynthia Marie Hoffman
Sarah Kain Gutowski is the author of…