Midwinter Workshop 2024

Diving Into the Deep

Many times as poets, we get in the way of our process. I heard someone say to me once they have trouble finding the jumping-off point for the poem. Jumping off..as though we have created a cavern or a canyon that creates an impassable boundary between us and the first image of the poem. What's worse is once we make it to the other side, we're so elated or exhausted we forget to go back and do the real work of the poet..revision. In this interactive generative workshop, poet, teacher, and inaugural Dallas Poet Laureate, Joaquín Zihuatanejo, will guide us through prompts designed to get us to put pen to page. We will write, but more importantly, we will revise. Along the way, we will discuss methods to get out of the way of overthinking our diligence to our own process, which can lead to a…