Forms & Features with Alecia Beymer

All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop, “The Infra-Ordinary: All That Goes Unnoticed,” created and led by Alecia Beymer.

Our worlds move in the peripheral, the unnoticed, the habitual and yet, we remain unaware of the little nothings of our days. In this session, we will develop forms of attunement to become aware of what rests in the unseen and the unnoticed parts of the daily. Often our lives are composed of snippets of the ordinary, or infra-ordinary – things we might have deemed unpoetic. Through generative reading and writing practices, we will create and hold space to acknowledge the mundane and tiny occurrences of the everyday, and to perhaps, “rediscover something of astonishment” (Perec).

Alecia Beymer, PhD (she/her) is an Assistant Professor - Educator in the Department of English at the University of Cincinnati. Some of her poetry and scholarship have appeared in The Inflectionist Review, Sugar House Review, SWWIM, Rust & Moth, Radar Poetry, English Journal, English Education, Research in the Teaching of English, among others. She is a finalist for the 2023 New Women’s Voices Chapbook Award for her forthcoming collection, Tree Surgeon. In her research and creative work, she is interested in ecopoetics, forms of attachment and intimacy, and the poetics of teaching.

Registration is required for this event. To allow for more poets to participate in workshops with Visiting Teaching Artists, participants will be registered for the March workshop with Alecia Beymer or the April workshop with Natalia Conte, 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]. Learn more about Google Meet’s built-in accessibility features here.