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Infecting the Text: Letting Trauma Take its Necessary Shape with Lisa Fay Coutley

Sat, Oct 26

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Zoom

A workshop that will give you permission and a way in so you can write about difficult topics in an imaginative and informative way.

Infecting the Text: Letting Trauma Take its Necessary Shape with Lisa Fay Coutley
Infecting the Text: Letting Trauma Take its Necessary Shape with Lisa Fay Coutley

Time & Location

Oct 26, 2024, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM CDT

Zoom

About the Event

By now you've heard writers—especially poets and lyric essayists—suggest that you should let your content inform your form as often as you've heard them say show don't tell, though as it is with most things, both are easier said than done. The former requires us to write from the body while letting go—a feat not easily mastered by any writer and complicated even more by difficult content. Often what we need most is permission and imaginative examples. This workshop will provide you with both.

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LISA FAY COUTLEY is the author of HOST (Wisconsin Poetry Series, 2024), tether (Black Lawrence Press, 2020), Errata (Southern Illinois University, 2015), winner of the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition, In the Carnival of Breathing (BLP, 2011), winner of the Black River Chapbook Competition, Small Girl: Micromemoirs (Harbor Editions, 2024), and she is the editor of In the Tempered Dark: Contemporary Poets Transcending Elegy (BLP, 2023).

Her poetry has been awarded an NEA Fellowship, an Academy of American Poets Levis Prize, chosen by Dana Levin, and the 2021 Gulf Coast Poetry Prize, selected by Natalie Diaz.

Recent prose & poetry appears in the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, Barrelhouse, Brevity, North American Review, The Massachusetts Review, and on The Slowdown. She is an Associate Professor of Poetry & CNF in the Writer’s Workshop at UNO.

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  • Infecting the Text

    Nebraska Poetry Society is inviting you to Infecting the Text: Letting Trauma Take its Necessary Shape with Lisa Fey Coutley on Zoom. Join Zoom Meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85836873206?pwd=cm44g6sqDz9g8KTFCcObe2jMbb5fNT.1 Meeting ID: 858 3687 3206 Passcode: 587804

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