
Bridging the Page and Stage Gap: How All Poets Can Learn from Both with Kelsey Bigelow
Sat, May 18
|Zoom
A workshop to bridge the divide between "page" poetry and "performance" poetry to discover how your work can live in both.


Time & Location
May 18, 2024, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM CDT
Zoom
About the Event
Too often, poets segment our genre into "traditional page poetry" and "modern spoken word poetry," believing we are one or the other. This creates a divide and only grows the disconnect between page and stage poets. Join Kelsey Bigelow, a poet living in the spectrum between both styles, as she guides us through how to bridge this gap and learn how each style informs the other.
KELSEY BIGELOW is a spoken word and page poet based in Des Moines. In her work, she molds incredibly specific emotions into something human, digestible, and cathartic.
She released her chapbook, "Sprig of Lilac," in 2018 and released her spoken word album, Depression Holders and Secret Keepers, in 2021.
Her work is published in or forthcoming with Central Avenue Publishing, Pile Press, Lyrical Iowa, Backchannels Journal, Spirit Lake Review, and elsewhere, and she is a 2024 Pushcart Prize nominee.
She's the founder and…
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Kelsey Bigelow Workshop
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