There is nothing like leveraging the elevated language and literary elements typically associated with poetry – vivid description, symbolic imagery, rhythm and sound – to connect to your readers. In this one-day workshop we will focus on how to employ the type of lyricism typically identified with poetry to add drama and beauty to your […]
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 – S300F19
In this one-day workshop we’ll explore the vibrant and flexible world of contemporary poetry as a means of expressing memories, experiences, impressions, emotions and insights you may have been struggling to convey in prose. Though the focus will be on poetry, we’ll also consider ways to employ the tools and craft of poetry in other […]