Friday, August 14, 7:00 pm
Presented By: Catamount Arts
Friday, August 14, 7-8:30pm
Location:
Open Stage at The Cavern
49 Perkins Street
St. Johnsbury
Instructor: Sonia Scherr
FREE
How can we use images from our own lives to write memorable poetry? In this workshop with 560 Railroad Community Artist Sonia Scherr, participants will read several poems that use a “Where I’m From” structure, including one written by Melanie Poonai, a winner at age 15 of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year award. We will discuss how the poems use specific, concrete details that engage the senses — and in doing so evoke emotion and meaning. Then we will use these poems as models to write our own “Where I’m From” poems about the things that have shaped us. Finally, we will provide supportive feedback to help each other revise and strengthen our work. This workshop is offered free of charge, thanks to generous support from an anonymous donor; donations are gratefully accepted to support future 560 Railroad Community Artists.
Sonia Scherr writes fiction and nonfiction and enjoys creating opportunities for people to connect with their community through the arts. Now an educator at the nonprofit Egan Maritime Institute on Nantucket, she previously worked as community coordinator at central Vermont’s Cabot School to expand out-of-classroom learning. She has a background in journalism and communications and has published short stories in literary journals, including Gargoyle Magazine, Jabberwock Review, Blue Earth Review and poemmemoirstory. Having grown up in Norwich and lived in the Northeast Kingdom, she is excited to work with the St. Johnsbury community as a 560 Railroad Street Community Artist.
Location:
Open Stage at The Cavern
49 Perkins Street
St. Johnsbury
Instructor: Sonia Scherr
FREE
How can we use images from our own lives to write memorable poetry? In this workshop with 560 Railroad Community Artist Sonia Scherr, participants will read several poems that use a “Where I’m From” structure, including one written by Melanie Poonai, a winner at age 15 of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year award. We will discuss how the poems use specific, concrete details that engage the senses — and in doing so evoke emotion and meaning. Then we will use these poems as models to write our own “Where I’m From” poems about the things that have shaped us. Finally, we will provide supportive feedback to help each other revise and strengthen our work. This workshop is offered free of charge, thanks to generous support from an anonymous donor; donations are gratefully accepted to support future 560 Railroad Community Artists.
Sonia Scherr writes fiction and nonfiction and enjoys creating opportunities for people to connect with their community through the arts. Now an educator at the nonprofit Egan Maritime Institute on Nantucket, she previously worked as community coordinator at central Vermont’s Cabot School to expand out-of-classroom learning. She has a background in journalism and communications and has published short stories in literary journals, including Gargoyle Magazine, Jabberwock Review, Blue Earth Review and poemmemoirstory. Having grown up in Norwich and lived in the Northeast Kingdom, she is excited to work with the St. Johnsbury community as a 560 Railroad Street Community Artist.