Forms & Features with Gabriela Denise Frank

All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop, “Fertile Borders: Generative Experiments with Literary Constraints,” created and led by Gabriela Denise Frank.

In this session, we’ll draw on sensory experiences of place and use guided prompts to reimagine our perception of and relationship to the physical world. Writers will learn about constraint-based techniques utilized by the Oulipo workshop, and explore how formal constraints can spark creative responses by offering a place to start. A series of literary experiments—S+7, lipograms, tautograms, mirror poems—will transmute our sensory observations and memories into surprising new forms of writing.

Gabriela Denise Frank (she/her) is a transdisciplinary artist, editor, educator, and creative consultant whose work expands from the page into the sonic, the visual, and the experiential. Her writing and visual art appear in True Story, BOMB Magazine, Northwest Review, Bayou, New Delta Review, The Rumpus, The Smart Set, and elsewhere. She serves as a public arts commissioner, a youth mentor, and as creative nonfiction editor and managing editor of Crab Creek Review.

To allow for more poets to participate in workshops with Visiting Teaching Artists, participants will be registered for the November workshop with Naoko Fujimoto or the December workshop with Gabriela Denise Frank, but not both sessions. 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]. To learn more about Google Meet’s built-in accessibility features visit https://support.google.com/meet/answer/7313544?hl=en.