Workshop

Leap from page to screen and turn your words into beautiful, flowing images of language.

Share your poem online and go viral, or just keep it to yourself and your intimates.

This generative workshop will follow in the non-tradition of the Situationists and psychogeographers with a prompt reflecting on and animating the urban milieu. After locating our impulse, we will create live animated poetry tied to the immediate environment — to echo Baudelaire, where the world is a forest of symbols — using a locative web app, Geodes.

In this generative class, poets Kelli Russell Agodon and Melissa Studdard help you step into the strange by guiding you through exercises designed to help you access the subconscious and surprise yourself on the page. We’ll explore techniques of surrealism—from startling juxtapositions to dream logic, associative leaps, and how to transform the ordinary into the extraordinary. We’ll look at how surreal imagery can deepen emotional truth and add new dimensions to your poems.