Virtual Workshop with Molly Kirschner: Writing For Ourselves and Each Other, Not the Critic

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Writing For Ourselves and Each Other, Not the Critic

Poetry is a one-way ticket deeper into the moment; into observation, sensation, and interpretation, which are the raw materials of meaning. Too often, our own inner critic arrests us on the surface of experience, begrudging us the voyage into significance. Through a mixture of collaborative and solitary activities, this workshop will focus on firing the critic so that we may inhabit our practice more fully. We will play, exchange inspirations, and enter into a state of heightened concentration. The workshop will close with a sharing component, in which writers will have the opportunity either to read their own work out loud or to hear someone else read it. Because we will have dispensed with the critic, there will be no group critique; rather, we will simply offer our poems to each other as gifts.

About Molly:

Molly Kirschner is a poet, playwright, performer, and educator. Her poems have appeared in journals
including The Southern Review, The New Ohio Review, and One Magazine, and four of her poems
are forthcoming in Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics. Kirschner was awarded the
inaugural poetry residency at The Hundredth Hill: “Resilience: the Poet’s Response to These Troubled
Times.” Her new manuscript was a finalist for the 2021 Four Way Books Levis Prize in Poetry.