WORKSHOP: Screwing around with the Nuts and Bolts of Poetry with Kimberly K Williams
Screwing around with the Nuts and Bolts of Poetry
An online workshop with Kimberly K Williams
DATE: Tuesday 11 July from 6:30-8:30pm AEST
LOCATION: Online via Zoom
Many times, people who write poetry are following an instinct or an impulse without being sure of what they are actually doing. This workshop will examine and play with some of the terms and techniques that are inherent to poetry: free verse, enjambment, caesura, end stops, stanza and line breaks – what do these terms mean, and more importantly, how does their application and execution affect a poem? We will cover some terminology in this workshop, and we will play with applying the terms, too.
This workshop will also offer an opportunity for participants to ask questions – things they’ve always wondered about writing poetry but have not had the opportunity to ask.
Outcome:
Participants will leave with a better understanding of some of the basic terms of poetry, in terms of meaning and application.
We will cover the basics by reading some poems and looking at examples and by playing with the poets’ own poems.
What you need to participate:
Zoom and a reliable Internet connection.
Poets are encouraged to bring 1-2 to poems to the workshop that they have already written.
This workshop is suitable for:
This workshop is for all levels of poets but is especially designed for those at the beginning or intermediate levels of poetry writing.
Ticketing:
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale, from concession/unwaged ($30) to full/waged ($40) to generous supporter ($50), i.e. subsidise a concession ticket by choosing to pay a bit extra).
One free ticket is reserved for a person experiencing financial hardship — please get in touch.
Upon booking, you will receive email confirmation and, closer to the workshop, further instructions and a Zoom link.
About your facilitator:
Kimberly K Williams is the author of three books of poetry, Still Lives (Gazebo Books), which received a 2022 Canberra Critics Circle Award in Writing, Sometimes a Woman (Recent Work Press), which won the 2022 WILLA Literary Award for Poetry, and Finally, the Moon (Stephen F Austin University Press). Kimberly was short-listed for the University of Canberra's Vice-Chancellor's Poetry Prize in 2019, and her poems appear in many journals and anthologies around the world. She is the current director of the UC's Poetry on the Move Festival. After teaching in higher education for over twenty years in the U.S., Kimberly moved to Canberra to pursue her PhD.
Screwing around with the Nuts and Bolts of Poetry
An online workshop with Kimberly K Williams
DATE: Tuesday 11 July from 6:30-8:30pm AEST
LOCATION: Online via Zoom
Many times, people who write poetry are following an instinct or an impulse without being sure of what they are actually doing. This workshop will examine and play with some of the terms and techniques that are inherent to poetry: free verse, enjambment, caesura, end stops, stanza and line breaks – what do these terms mean, and more importantly, how does their application and execution affect a poem? We will cover some terminology in this workshop, and we will play with applying the terms, too.
This workshop will also offer an opportunity for participants to ask questions – things they’ve always wondered about writing poetry but have not had the opportunity to ask.
Outcome:
Participants will leave with a better understanding of some of the basic terms of poetry, in terms of meaning and application.
We will cover the basics by reading some poems and looking at examples and by playing with the poets’ own poems.
What you need to participate:
Zoom and a reliable Internet connection.
Poets are encouraged to bring 1-2 to poems to the workshop that they have already written.
This workshop is suitable for:
This workshop is for all levels of poets but is especially designed for those at the beginning or intermediate levels of poetry writing.
Ticketing:
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale, from concession/unwaged ($30) to full/waged ($40) to generous supporter ($50), i.e. subsidise a concession ticket by choosing to pay a bit extra).
One free ticket is reserved for a person experiencing financial hardship — please get in touch.
Upon booking, you will receive email confirmation and, closer to the workshop, further instructions and a Zoom link.
About your facilitator:
Kimberly K Williams is the author of three books of poetry, Still Lives (Gazebo Books), which received a 2022 Canberra Critics Circle Award in Writing, Sometimes a Woman (Recent Work Press), which won the 2022 WILLA Literary Award for Poetry, and Finally, the Moon (Stephen F Austin University Press). Kimberly was short-listed for the University of Canberra's Vice-Chancellor's Poetry Prize in 2019, and her poems appear in many journals and anthologies around the world. She is the current director of the UC's Poetry on the Move Festival. After teaching in higher education for over twenty years in the U.S., Kimberly moved to Canberra to pursue her PhD.