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Generative Poetry Workshop

with Alessandra Lynch

This workshop can help poets of all levels of experience produce several poem drafts ignited by art, other poet's poems, and close observation.

This workshop is presented in partnership with the Indiana Writers Center. Check out other writing workshops at library branches this season!

And to get prepped, here are some book lists about writing and poetry!

• Writing and Creativity
• Creative Writing Inspiration
• Poetry Anthologies

Instructor Alessandra Lynch’s fifth book of poetry, Wish Ave, was published by Alice James Books in 2024. She is the author of four other poetry collections: Pretty Tripwire, Daylily Called It a Dangerous Moment (winner of the Balcones Prize, finalist for the LA Times Book Award and the UNT Rilke Prize, listed as a NY Times top ten poetry books of 2017), It was a terrible cloud at twilight, and Sails the Wind Left Behind. Her work has appeared in the American Poetry Review, The New England Review, The Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, and other journals. Alessandra has received residencies from MacDowell, Yaddo, the Lannan Foundation, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Vermont Studio Center. She has been the recipient of a Barbara Deming Award and a Creative Renewal Fellowship Award. She has also been a featured blogger for the Poetry Foundation’s  Harriet Books. Currently, Alessandra serves as Butler University’s poet in residence where she teaches in the undergraduate and MFA programs.

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