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Cost: $20.00 [covers the meeting AND the Citro Presentation]
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SCHEDULE:
9:15
Virtual Zoom space opens
9:30 -10:00
General Announcements
10:00 -11:30
Christopher Citro
11:30 -12:00
Screen Break/lunch
12:00 - 1:30
Annual Business Meeting – Updates, Election of Officers, Plans for 2024
1:30 -1:45
Screen Break
1:45 - 3:00
Open Mic – Time will depend on number of readers
3:00
(or earlier) Zoom room closes
Christopher Citro’s Presentation
In this generative workshop, which focuses on poetry but should also be of interest to fiction and creative nonfiction writers, we'll explore the craft element of voice--creating a sense of a living personality behind our words.
We'll look at how voice can help us find our way into new writing, and how a well-crafted voice can help our writing come alive and leap from the page. We'll read poems by writers such as Donika Kelly, James Tate, and Camille T. Dungy, and examine the dazzling effects they achieve through voice.
During our session we'll write new work using prompts I've created inspired by the poems we've read. And when our time together is over, you'll receive a packet of further poems and prompts to help you continue to be inspired by voice, expanding and deepening your relationship with this vital aspect of contemporary creative writing!
About Chris Citro
Christopher Citro is the author of The Maintenance of the Shimmy-Shammy (Steel Toe Books, 2015). His honors include a Pushcart Prize for poetry, Columbia Journal's poetry award, and a creative nonfiction award from The Florida Review. His poems appear widely in literary magazines and journals such as American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Iowa Review, Gulf Coast, and Alaska Quarterly Review. His writing has been anthologized in Best New Poets 2014, New Poetry from the Midwest 2019, and Best Microfiction 2020. He teaches creative writing at SUNY Oswego and lives in sunny Syracuse, New York.