Forms & Features Online with Jake Sorgen

All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop, “Writing Language, Writing Sound: Poetry, Music, and Performance,” created and led by Jake Sorgen. 

In this session, participants will read, hear, and create spoken word poems that incorporate music and sound in the writing, and/or performance, of poetry. We will explore the ways language can be viewed as a form of music; how music/sound can be utilized as a narrative tool; methods of reading and hearing the sound world of written poetry; and techniques to develop our own cross-genre spoken word pieces.

Jake Sorgen (he/him) is a composer-poet and musician based in Chicago. His writing and compositions blur borders between poetry and music. His most recent works of music-poetry include "The Forgotten Suite," released in February 2021, and the debut of the multidisciplinary ensemble Small Giants. Sorgen served as composer-in-residence and artistic associate for The Rogue Theatre from 2014–2019, was named the Maverick Prodigy Composer at the Maverick Concert Hall in 2018, and received a 2020 Composer's Fellowship from the Vermont College of Fine Arts..

Registration is required; space is limited. To register, email [email protected] with the date and time of the session you would like to attend. This program is for adult participants, aged 18 and up.

Registration for this event will open October 18th.