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Trying Poetry - A Beginner's Workshop (Adults)

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To celebrate National Poetry Month and the end of National Library Week, join us for an introductory poetry workshop!

This introductory poetry workshop is designed for beginners with little to no poetry-writing experience. No prior experience is required—just a willingness to write and explore poetry in a supportive, low-pressure setting.

"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought,” writes Robert Frost, “and the thought has found words.” In this introductory workshop, we will try to craft words that create an emotional experience in our readers. We’ll review several poetic models and then try to write a poem or two. The goal is to learn a bit about how poetry works, and to have some fun in the process.

Tom Montgomery Fate is a professor emeritus at College DuPage in Glen Ellyn IL, where he taught creative writing and literature courses for more than 30 years. He is the author of six books of creative nonfiction, including The Long Way Home: Detours and Discoveries, a travel memoir (Ice Cube Press, 2022), Cabin Fever, a nature memoir (Beacon Press), and Steady and Trembling, a spiritual memoir (Chalice Press). A regular contributor to the Chicago Tribune, his essays have appeared in the Boston Globe, Baltimore Sun, Orion, The Iowa Review, Christian Century, Fourth Genre, River Teeth, and many others. Dozens of his essays have also aired on NPR and Chicago Public Radio.

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