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SUMMARY:Mapping your way into the Future- Facilitated by Elizabeth Kerlikowske
DESCRIPTION:Explore your past and future through writing and mark-making. Two-part workshop with materials provided. Learn something new about yourself.\nElizabeth Kerlikowske facilitates a 2- part poetry workshop in partnership with The Kalamazoo Poetry Festival. This workshop is free of charge. \nThis is a 2-part workshop\, please do not sign up unless you can make both dates! \nJanuary 5\, 12\, 2025 6-7:30pm \nDescription: \nRecognizing and placing significant moments helps us to see our past and plan our future. This workshop involves writing and basic mark-making. The second half builds on the first. Materials provided. Expect to learn something new about yourself. \nBio: \nElizabeth Kerlikowske is the author of four full-length books and eleven chapbooks. Her poems appeared most recently in Cereal City Review\, New Verse News\, New World Writing\, and Dunes Review. She was awarded the Kalamazoo Community Medal for the Arts in 2017 and currently teaches Ekphrastic Writing at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts. \nSIGN UP AT THE WEBSITE BELOW!
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LOCATION:KNAC\, 315 W Michigan Ave\, Kalamazoo\, MI\, 49007-5007\, United States
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SUMMARY:8 Part Poetry Workshop Series With Scott Bade
DESCRIPTION:Join poet Scott Bade for an 8-part KPF workshop series Jan–Apr 2026. Write\, learn\, and grow in community. In partnership with KPF.\n\n\n\nKalamazoo educator and published poet\, Scott Bade\, facilitates a poetry writing workshop in partnership with The Kalamazoo Poetry Festival. \nThis workshop is capped at 10 participants. Please only register if you are able to attend all eight sessions\, as signing up and not attending may prevent someone else from joining \nThe dates of the sessions are as follows\, and all sessions go from 5:30-7:30pm: \nJanuary 14&28\, February 11&25\, March 4&18\, April 1&15 \nDo you have work sitting in your head that’s ready to move onto the page? Are you looking for thoughtful feedback from a supportive group\, or hoping to learn new poetic tools to take your writing to the next level? Maybe you simply want to explore poetry in community with others who feel the same pull toward the craft. \nThis 8-part workshop series meets twice a month from January through April 2026\, hosted in the new Kalamazoo Poetry Festival space at the Kalamazoo Nonprofit Advocacy Coalition in downtown Kalamazoo. Sessions run 5:30–7:30pm. \nThe series is facilitated by writer Scott Bade\, who will use teaching\, prompts and auxiliary materials to help you shape your own work. You can read more about him below. \nPLEASE NOTE: Scott has requested that if you have taken any of his workshops in the past year\, please refrain from signing up. We want to make sure new community members have the chance to participate. \nScott Bade is the author of Preemptive Elegy (2024 – Kelsay Books) and the chapbook My Favorite Thing About Desire\, co-winner of the 2018 Celery City Chapbook contest. He teaches at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts and Kalamazoo College. Scott Bade’s award-winning poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and his poems have appeared in Fugue\, Shadowgraph\, Reed Magazine\, Foothill and elsewhere.
URL:https://kalamazoopoetryfestival.com/event/8-part-poetry-workshop-series-with-scott-bade/
LOCATION:KNAC\, 315 W Michigan Ave\, Kalamazoo\, MI\, 49007-5007\, United States
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