Whether you’re healing from illness, isolation, or injury to the mind, body or soul, this workshop is designed to provide participants solace through community and creativity. Through a series of generative writing prompts, participants will be given the opportunity to craft traumatic experience, memory and emotion into poetry and prose. This process, research shows, can […]
Lisa Pierce Flores
A poetry editor for Inkwell journal and founding editor of Living in Stamford magazine, Lisa Pierce Flores’s essays, journalism, fiction, and poetry have been published in Till the Tide: An Anthology of Mermaid Poetry,The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, HealthyLife, The Jewish Daily Forward, POEM, Stand, West Wind Review, Lullwater Review and Gloom Cupboard. She teaches writing at Fairfield University and Manhattanville College, where she earned her MFA and served as an inaugural Writing Center Fellow. She is also author of The History of Puerto Rico (Greenwood, 2010), an exploration of her family's ancestral homeland.
Accessing Your Inner Poet
Poet and artist Matthea Harvey has described her process as a combination of impulses: “When I’m writing, part of me is frolicking in the sea foam (imagination) and part of me is hunting the monsters in the deep (emotions).” In this workshop we will plunge in to those same teeming waters and explore, harnessing imagination […]