My Mind is a Room: OCD Poetics with grace (ge) gilbert
Sat, Feb 20
|Virtual on Zoom
How can poetry capture the way our minds work? Explore how OCD, neurodivergence, and different ways of thinking can shape poetic form and expression. Through discussion and generative writing exercises, we will experiment with translating your own thought patterns into poetry.
Time & Location
Feb 20, 2027, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM CST
Virtual on Zoom
About the Event
To paraphrase Lauren Russell in her book A Window that Can Neither Open Nor Close (Milkweed Multiverse series), obsessive-compulsive disorder is the "disease of not knowing what you know." The doubting disease. Brain lock.
Whatever you call it, there are loops, coils, structures, rooms that feel impossible to break out of. As poets with OCD and/or other forms of neurodivergence, what would happen if we were to "write" our brains? To translate them?
What would happen if anyone with any brain-difference were to try and translate their experience through poetics? Sometimes, the poems might glue together in places. Perhaps they start to become a series, or a family, or a three-dimensional cube. Or maybe they spiral out, diverge from the center, if there even is a center at all.
In this generative, exploratory workshop, all students are welcome to join in our discovery of what…
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Join Zoom Meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81167290486?pwd=KMrsqTcyEWumSaFOiBEtb0QK89hsFv.1 Meeting ID: 811 6729 0486 Passcode: 646680
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