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Our poetry panel features continues with these 5 great workshops that you can attend at Winter Wheat!<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom Lyric to Lebowski: Writing the Pop Culture Poem,\u201d with Donora Hillard<\/strong><\/p>\n What does it mean to write a \u201cgood\u201d pop culture poem? How can poets use pop culture to access elements of love, anxiety, misery, hope? Led by Donora Hillard, whose most recent full-length poetry collection,\u00a0Jeff Bridges<\/em>, was released by Cobalt Press in 2016, this workshop will work through those questions and more. Participants will each leave with a poem draft that gets to the root of what we love\u2014and why we love\u2014in the public consciousness.<\/p>\n Donora Hillard<\/strong> is the author of Jeff Bridges<\/em> (Cobalt Press, 2016), The Aphasia Poems<\/em> (S\u25b2L, 2014), and other books of poetry. Her work appears in Hobart<\/em>, Women in Clothes<\/em> (Penguin), and elsewhere. She teaches at The University of Akron and lives in a tiny house with the writer Andrew Rihn.<\/p>\n (this workshop will be held on Friday, November 4th<\/sup> from 3:00-4:15pm<\/strong>. If you\u2019re interested in attending this workshop, select A3<\/strong> when you register!)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cFirst, Put Pen to Paper: Instructions as Poetry,\u201d with Daniel Gualtieri<\/strong><\/p>\n Modern and contemporary poetry contains a great tradition of poems written as sets of instructions, advice, or even recipes. This poetic form can provide interesting structural advantages, a confident and assertive voice, and fresh content for the poet of today. In this workshop, we will delve into the nature, use, and assembly of these instructional poems, take a look at some examples from great poets of the past and present, and spend time writing our own instructional poems and discussing them in a small-group setting.<\/p>\n Dan Gualtieri<\/strong> is an MFA poetry student at BGSU, and a native of Columbus, OH. He writes fiction and creative nonfiction in addition to poetry, and thrives on continental philosophy, theology, caffeine, and sushi.<\/p>\n (this workshop will be held on Friday, November 4th<\/sup> from 4:30-5:45pm<\/strong>. If you\u2019re interested in attending this workshop, select B3<\/b>\u00a0when you register!)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cPoetry as Meditation,\u201d with Karen Craigo<\/strong><\/p>\n For the presenter, each day begins with a poem\u2014one that aims to change her own mindset and to encourage peaceful contemplation in others. Join this workshop to consider the idea of poem as meditation\u2014a tool for connecting with a universal mind. Most poetic education is based on the very useful idea of a piece of writing as a flawed product that requires tinkering. This session explores the notion that a piece of writing might just be an artifact of the spirit, rather than a workshop fix-it project\u2014while understanding that neither mindset suffices on its own.<\/p>\n Karen Craigo<\/strong> is the author of the poetry collection\u00a0No More Milk<\/em> (Sundress, 2016) and the forthcoming collection\u00a0Passing Through Humansville<\/em> (ELJ, 2017). She maintains Better View of the Moon<\/em>, a daily blog on writing, editing, and creativity, and she teaches writing in Springfield, Missouri. She is the nonfiction editor and former editor-in-chief of Mid-American Review<\/em>, the reviews editor of SmokeLong Quarterly<\/em>, an editor of Gingko Tree Review<\/em>, and the managing editor of ELJ Publications.<\/p>\n (this workshop will be held on Saturday, November 5th<\/sup> from 9:30-10:45am<\/strong>. If you\u2019re interested in attending this workshop, select C3<\/b>\u00a0when you register!)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cExistence as Conditional on Others\u2019 Perceptions and the Deconstruction of the Self,\u201d with Remi Recchia<\/strong><\/p>\n The goal of this workshop is to produce new poems centered on the idea of the existence or nonexistence of the self. The focus of this workshop will be to deconstruct your own ideas of who you are and see if there is a core \u201cyou\u201d and how it affects your creative work. After a brief presentation, we will examine who we think we are as writers and, more importantly, humans,\u00a0and challenge these perceptions during a discussion\/workshop and in-session writing time.\u00a0This session is appropriate for all levels of writers or anyone who is interested in existence.<\/p>\n Remi Recchia<\/strong> is an MFA candidate in poetry at BGSU. He has been published in Glass: A Journal of Poetry<\/em>,Cutbank Literary Journal<\/em>\u2019s online \u201cAll Accounts & Mixture\u201d series, and The Birds We Piled Loosely<\/em>, among others, and has a piece forthcoming in Ground Fresh Thursday Press<\/em>.<\/p>\n (this workshop will be held on Saturday, November 5th<\/sup> from 1:30-2:45pm<\/strong>. If you\u2019re interested in attending this workshop, select E8<\/b>\u00a0when you register!)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cWriting a Love Poem that Doesn\u2019t Suck,\u201d with Luke Marinac and Lyric Dunagan<\/strong><\/p>\n How can an emotion as powerful as love so often give rise to overly sentimental, clich\u00e9-riddled poetry? Is it impossible to wrangle this emotion in writing without feeling as though we\u2019ve forgotten our pantaloons and lyre?<\/p>\n Although the love poem is well-trodden territory, it\u2019s constantly presenting us with new and strange paths to assuage our confessional impulses. From ancient Mesopotamia to Kobe Bryant, we\u2019ll examine how the love poem has evolved throughout the years and its function in contemporary society, then experiment with approaches to crafting a love poem that doesn\u2019t suck.<\/p>\n Luke Marinac<\/strong>, a transplant from Appalachian Tennessee, is in the MFA Program at BGSU. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in the North American Review<\/em>, Pittsburgh Poetry Review<\/em>, Anamesa<\/em>, and Stirring<\/em>, among others.<\/p>\n Lyric Dunagan<\/strong> graduated with her MFA in poetry from the University of Tennessee in 2016. Her poetry has previously appeared in Cactus Heart<\/em>, New Madrid<\/em> and The Volta<\/em> among others.<\/p>\n (this workshop will be held on Saturday, November 5th<\/sup> from 3:00-4:15pm<\/strong>. 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