Meet Your Workshop Lead
Marissa Forbes
Winter 2024 Tiny Resident
Marissa Forbes (she/her) is an artist, writer of all genres, a creative instructor, and mother. In 2023, she published Surviving Peter Pan, based on J.M Barrie’s Peter Pan and her journey healing from an abusive relationship (Beyond the Veil Press) and Brief & Bleeding Margins, a raw feminist collection of poetry & lyric essays (World Stage Press). Other published poems and short stories can be read on marissaforbes.com and @word_nerd_ris. She is the Managing Editor for Twenty Bellows, a Colorado based literary magazine, and a teacher for the Denver Chapter of Community Literature Initiative’s 10 month Poetry for Publication program. She was awarded an Author Fellowship from Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing in 2021 and a Pushcart Nominee in 2023. Forbes has resided all over the country but now lives a colorful life with her two children, father, dog, and cat in Denver, CO, where she hones her personal mission of amplifying marginalized voices through the healing power of art and community.
The Workshop
Multi-sensory Poetics is a generative workshop that explores poetry through concepts of synesthesia (the production of a sense impression relating to one sense or part of the body by stimulation of another sense or part of the body). This Ekphrastic (so-to-say) experimental workshop uses the work of Kandinsky as a jumping off point then expands on imagery and metaphor techniques by examining and mixing our senses in fruitful and unexpected ways. Prompts will incorporate various sounds, color theory (through art theory/psychology scope), and our sense of touch and taste. We will hone in on fresh paths for creation by blending our senses to create experimental poetry. Participants will find answers to the question: How can we push the envelope for creating experimental poetry?
WHEN & WHERE
February 24 & 25: 3-5 PM MST / 5-7 PM EST
The workshop will take place virtually via Zoom. Upon registration, you will be sent the link closer to the event.
REGISTRATION
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!
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If you are not able to donate a monetary amount, you are welcome! Please email us directly at tinyspoonlitmag@gmail.com to register.