Forms & Features Online with Crista Siglin

All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop, “Poetry As_A Workshop,” created and led by Crista Siglin. 

Thinking about analogical thinking may be an interesting start to looking at how a poem works the way that it does. Poems often build on some sort of identifiable experience, and then complicate it or specify it in unpredictable ways. Poems play with our previously held associations, concepts, and experience — either lived directly or fictively. Often in visual, sonic, and written art, the connections that arise in the mind of the viewer/audience are woven seamlessly into a network of personal meaning. Ekphrastic writing is a useful form in that it transcends multiple mediums, and involves the artistic expression of more than one person. In this workshop, we will explore the way we build associations, and put it to practice with collaborative ekphrastic writing exercises.

Crista Siglin is a Berlin-based multidisciplinary artist and poet. She grew up in Iowa, and was awarded a BFA in Painting and Creative Writing from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2015. She is currently a poetry editor for SAND Journal Berlin, and runs Poetry As__A Workshop. Her second book of poetry, Unpleasable Nature, was released in 2020 by Vegetarian Alcoholic Press. 

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.