Forms & Features with Sarah Ann Winn

All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop, “Scruffy Hospitality & Gardens Full of Toads: Poems of Lived-in Places,” created and led by Sarah Ann Winn.

In this workshop, we’ll consider the ways that modern poets use “scruffy” details from the material world to deepen a sense of place in their work, and their connection with their reader. We’ll read example poems, and discuss how each poet uses craft to add tension and dimension to poems written about familiar places. We’ll draft poems which welcome the reader into the shared imagination, inviting them to step beyond the doorstep of our lines and into the beloved and imperfect places we inhabit.

Sarah Ann Winn’s first book, Alma Almanac (Barrow Street, 2017) won the Barrow Street Book Prize, judged by Elaine Equi. She is also the author of five chapbooks, most recently, Ever After the End Matter (Porkbelly Press, 2019). Her writing has appeared in Five Points, Kenyon Review, Massachusetts Review, Nashville Review, Smartish Pace, and elsewhere. In 2015 she founded Poet Camp, a creative community where she hosts online classes, jumpstarts and cozy writing retreats. Last year, she was awarded the MISA Excellence in Teaching Fellowship by the Loft Literary Center. Find her at https://poetcamp.com.

To allow for more poets to participate in workshops with Visiting Teaching Artists, participants will be registered for the September workshop with Sarah Ann Winn or the October workshop with Oliver Brickman. This program is for adult participants, aged 18 and older.

Closed captioning is available via Google Meet. We are happy to provide ASL interpretation. Please let us know at least one week in advance, if possible, if you would benefit from an ASL interpreter in attendance. If you would benefit from any other accessibility measures, please contact us by emailing [email protected]. Learn more about Google Meet’s built-in accessibility features here.