Saturday, June 24, 11am-1pm
All Ages
$100/person, includes all materials
*Sliding fee scale available for this class, please email Lynette@thenewlocal.org for more information
Instructor: Aimee Herman
Collage Poetry is a chance to gather, use inspiration from found art, grocery lists, unfinished love notes, magazine and newspaper clippings to create something new. Something yours. Something from your imagination. We will utilize the cut-up technique (taking language from two or more different sources), blackout poetry (removing language) and poetry prompts to inspire the poetry from deep within us while also creating art. Whether you have written many poems before or always wanted to, this is the workshop for you.
Feel free to bring: old magazines, newspapers, receipts from your pocket, letters or cards you haven't thrown away, incomplete artwork you are hoping to finish one day, any bits of words. You may also just arrive with just yourself and an open mind. Materials will be provided!
About the Instructor:
Aimee Herman is a queer, nonbinary educator and writer. They are the author of two books of poetry, "meant to wake up feeling" (great weather for MEDIA), "to go without blinking" (BlazeVOX books) and the novel "Everything Grows" (Three Rooms Press). In addition, their work can be found in journals and anthologies such as BOMB, cream city review, and "Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics". They currently host a monthly open mic in Boulder called Queer Art Organics. Aimee is extremely enamored with libraries, ukuleles, and the moon.