On Sunday, Oct. 20, the Dudley Randall Center for Print Culture and Broadside Lotus Press will host the first Poets’ Theater of the semester from 3 to 5:30 p.m. in the Student Union’s Grounds Coffeehaus. There will be a writing workshop from 3 to 4:30 p.m. followed by open mic. Bring your work in progress to read and receive feedback. Also, bring a piece by Dudley Randall or your favorite Broadside Lotus Press poet.
Workshop Prompts
Poems re: poetic/ artistic/ aesthetic foremothers or forefathers, and/or colleagues
- Using lines from your poetic /artistic/ aesthetic foremothers, forefathers, and/or colleagues, write a dialogue or letter of your poetic/artistic/ aesthetic concerns to them.
Poems regarding the body
- What composes or compromises the body? (physically, psychologically, politically, culturally)
- What structures of power are writing your body? What violences are associated with those structures of power?
- What narratives have been written about or imposed upon your body? How do you make sense of these narratives?
- Which of these narratives, what fables, what mythologies, what official documents and sacred texts to you accept, reject, rewrite, revise, erase, blackout, whiteout?
- What do you appropriate? (take for one’s own use without permission?)
This event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Rosemary Weatherston, director of the Dudley Randall Center for Print Culture at weatherr@udmercy.edu.