This is a live, interactive workshop. Click here to join the workshop: https://zoom.us/j/97243328471?pwd=RERZOGE0bzZ0dG5BamRITXZueGViUT09

Explore the pleasure and nuance of reading poetry aloud in this workshop.

How do form and punctuation create a road map for the breath to follow? Be prepared to read a few lines, and to write some, too.

Irene Cooper is the author of Committal, a speculative spy-fy novel about family (Vegetarian Alcoholic Press, 2020) & spare change: poems (FLP, 2021). In 2020, she co-edited, with Ellen Santasiero, Placed: An Encyclopedia of Central Oregon, an anthology of Central Oregon writing. Poems, stories & reviews appear in Denver Quarterly, The Feminist Wire, The Manifest-Station, The Rumpus, phoebe, Witness, VoiceCatcher, & elsewhere. Irene co-founded The Stay Project, co-facilitates Blank Pages Workshops, teaches in community, & lives with her people & a corgi in Oregon. Find her at www.irenecooperwrites.com


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