Imagery & Poetic Leaps with Liz Whiteacre

A Meet an Author, Be an Author Workshop

In this hands-on session, we will explore tools we can use to create imagery and consider how images in poems can tap into a wide range of sensory experiences. This session will focus on generating poems, but writers of all genres are welcome!

In the 70s, poet Robert Bly wrote about the “poetic leap,” or moments in poems when readers leap from conscious to unconscious thoughts while reading. An image can describe a mental picture for readers, and it can also express emotion, build a world, develop character, provide context, etc. for readers, leaping them to other things that they can bring back into the poem to enhance meaning, add layers. We will start with photographs, explore different ways to create images, and create a poem with imagery and poetic leaps. This session will focus on generating poems, but writers of all genres are welcome!

Learn more about the Meet an Author, Be an Author event that will take place on October 19 at Central Library. The day will include workshops, the Local Authors Book Fair, The Readings Café, and networking events throughout the day!

This workshop is being offered in partnership with the Indiana Writers Center (IWC). The IWC supports Indiana writers of all ages and backgrounds and reaches out to people whose voices are rarely heard.

This event is made possible by Friends of the Library through gifts to The Indianapolis Public Library Foundation. 

And to get your poetic mind prepped, here are some book lists. 

• Black Poets You Need to Read! 
• Diverse Poetry Collections from the Last Decade That Uses Poetic Form and Technique in a New or Interesting Way

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