Workshop
Speaking Up & Talking Back: Troubling the Archive
with Adrie Rose
June 17 • 7:00 PM (EST) - 9:00 PM (EST)
Dates
June 17 • 7:00 PM (EST) - 9:00 PM (EST)
Duration
2 hours
Location
Online
Price
US$75
About the workshop
Erasures, blackouts, centos, & more offer us opportunities to change the archive, add to the archive, and alter the archive. What's been left out or mis-represented? What still needs to be heard and seen?
Details
In this course, we will look at examples of how different writers have troubled the archive, from the Ferguson Report to ideas about illness to perceptions of the Deaf (& more!). We will learn several different techniques for working with the archive in our own work, and have some writing time together.
What you will learn
You'll come away with knowledge of how to gather material for and create centos, and several types of erasure/blackout poems.
Workshop takeaways
• Creative tools for troubling the archive • Writing exercises and generative prompts to continue working on your projects with direction
Additional info
If you can't attend this class live, it will be recorded! Students will receive a recording the day after the class, and it will be available for 30 days.
About the instructor
Adrie Rose lives next to an orchard in western MA and is the editor of Nine Syllables Press. Her work has previously appeared in The Baltimore Review, Nimrod, The Night Heron Barks, and more. Her chapbook I Will Write a Love Poem was released in 2023 with Porkbelly Press, and her chapbook Rupture was released in 2024 with Gold Line Press. She was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2019 and 2023, a finalist for The Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry in 2021, named a Highly Commended Poet for the International Gingko Prize in 2023, and won the 2023 Radar Coniston Prize. She won the Elizabeth Babcock Poetry Prize, the Ethel Olin Corbin Prize, and the Gertrude Posner Spencer Prize in 2021, and the Anne Bradstreet Prize, the Eleanor Cederstrom Prize, and the Mary Augusta Jordan Prize in 2022. Find her on Instagram @AdrieRose_
Learn how to write erasure poetry