Saturday Sessions: POP POEM: a found poetry workshop
Date: Saturday, June 30, 2018
Time: 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Event: All-ages event; little ones will have fun, too. Best for language lovers and the curious.
Description: Bianca, a local performance poet, will share with participants the joys of finding poetry in existing texts and/or images and refashioning them as new poems. This "Pop Poem" workshop resembles Pop Art, hence the name, including the conflict between the literal and abstract, freedom of artistic expression, repetition of discovery and multiple meanings.
Writer Annie Dillard has said that turning a text into a poem doubles that poem's context, "The original meaning remains intact, but now it swings between two poles." A found poem is the literary equivalent of a collage, and so, during our two hours together, we'll have several stations of "texts," including magazines, books, games, etc., where we will hunt for the poems to find us.
Participants are encouraged to bring their pop poems to The Rumpus, an event happening later that day at SVA (7:00 pm), to share with the storytellers and audience members.
Cost: Suggested donation to SVA of $5 (non-member) or $3 (member) to Stone Valley Arts. Scholarships are available to anyone who asks, day-of-the-event, just talk to Bianca, aka money is no object. Just come have fun!
Contact: Bianca Amira Zanella, 603-732-8606, or zanellab@greenmtn.edu
Location: Stone Valley Arts at Fox Hill, 145 East Main Street, Poultney VT (Across from Poultney High School)
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