31 Mar “Where I’m From” with Lisa Jones
Posted at 20:14h
in Workshops
We’ll start with an accessible list-style poem that invites writers to excavate memories from their lives or that of their fictional characters. Then writers will be guided through a series of short instructions designed to develop a particularly juicy part of their list/poem by writing a scene through their five senses. This injects extra emotional heft into the piece, because the sensory processing centers of the brain are located right next to the emotion-processing area, creating a lot of cross pollination between these centers. A slam-dunk description of the smell of your grandma’s banana bread can actually make a reader cry…