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RVA Poetry Fest: Poetry for Absolute Beginners
Join us for a crash course in reading and writing poetry. We’ll read a few poems together, talk about what makes them tick, and try our hand at capturing some poetry on the page. (If we run out of time for the writing exercise during the allotted workshop time, participants will be given a writing exercise to take with them, which can be done at a later date.)
About the Instructor
Lauren Miner
Lauren Miner is a graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University, where she earned an MFA in creative writing (concentrating in poetry) and an MA in English (writing her thesis about descriptions of photographs in the poems of Larry Levis). She's led creative-writing workshops at VCU, the UVa Young Writers' Workshop, and elsewhere. Her creative interests include poetry, nonfiction, photography (both analog and digital), and comics. She currently serves as an assistant poetry editor at Four Way Review, and she is the Artist-in-Residence for the James River Park System.
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