Writing Autobiographical Poetry with Todd Robinson
Sat, Dec 06
|Zoom
Turn your life into art. In this workshop, we will explore how autobiographical poetry can honor both your magnificence and your messy humanity. You will leave with new ways to tell your story with beauty and depth.
Time & Location
Dec 06, 2025, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Zoom
About the Event
"To believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life." —Czeslaw Milosz With Milosz’s immortal wisdom as our lodestar, we will take a tour through autobiographical poems ancient and modern, studying the ways personal poems capture self and other, place and purpose, sound and sense, framing the self as both mirror and window, at once magnificent and minute.
TODD ROBINSON, affectionately known to acolytes as "Toddfather," is a poet and educator based in Omaha. He is the author of Mass for Shut-Ins (Backwaters Press, 2018) and Note at Heart Rock (Main Street Rag Publishing, 2012).
His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in such epic venues as Prairie Schooner, Flyway—Journal of Writing and Environment, Kestrel, North American Review, Sugar House Review, Cortland Review, Natural Bridge, Superstition Review, Weber: The Contemporary West, Chiron Review, A Dozen Nothing, and many…
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Autobiographical Poetry
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