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

By now you've heard writers—especially poets and lyric essayists—suggest that you should 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.let your content inform your form

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

Her poetry has been…