Meet Your Workshop Lead
Anne Marie Wells
Summer 2024 Tiny Resident
Anne Marie Wells (she/they) is an award-winning and Pushcart nominated poet, playwright, memoirist, and oral storyteller. She is the author of Survived By: A Memoir in Verse + Other Poems (Curious Corvid Publishing, 2023) and Mother, (v), winner of Cinnamon Press’ 2023 chapbook contest. She is a freelance copy and content editor, writing coach, and workshop facilitator. Find her online @AnneMarieWellsWriter or on her website AnneMarieWellsWriter.com
The Workshop
In this two-day workshop Anne Marie Wells will guide participants through a brief history of traditional poetic forms before diving heart first into modern poetic forms that give a throbbing middle finger to convention. Together, the group will explore constraint as a means of defying constraining societal structures as well as a means of experimentation and fun! Poetic forms don’t have to be metered or rhyming or trite. Poetic forms can be cultural, they can be political statements, they can contain secret messages, they can be puzzles, they can be math, they can be nonsensical, and they can be even more than all that when the participants in the class invent their own forms, adding to the diversity and beauty of the literary universe. This workshop is for the established form fetishist, the form curious, and form skeptics.
WHEN & WHERE
Saturday & Sunday September 28 & 29 from 10 am to Noon MST / Noon to 2 PM EST
The workshop will take place virtually via Zoom. Upon registration, you will be sent the link closer to the event.
REGISTRATION
Registration is now closed! Please join us for our next workshop!
To bring poetry to the people, we are offering our workshops on a donation basis.
To support our Tiny Resident, we recommend a $25-50 sliding donation.
That said, please feel welcome to pay any amount that you can!
All funds will be used to support Tiny Spoon’s Tiny Residency Program.
Please register here! A Zoom link and more information will be provided before the workshop!