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Exploring the Poetic Line: A Generative Writing Workshop

Join Connecticut’s 8th Poet Laureate for a generative poetry writing workshop

Join us for Exploring the Poetic Line: a generative poetry writing workshop with Antoinette Brim-Bell!

Exploring the Poetic Line

Poet and critic James Longenbach characterizes the line as “what distinguishes our experience of poetry as poetry.”  This workshop will explore the poetic line as an instrument for musicality and meaning-making. Participants will examine lines from poems by noted poets and study how these lines function within the larger poem and on their own.  This is a generative workshop; guided prompts will be shared, allowing participants to experiment with their own poetic lines.

Antoinette Brim-Bell (Antoinette Brim), Connecticut’s 8th State Poet Laureate, is the author of three full-length poetry collections:  These Women You Gave Me, Icarus in Love, and Psalm of the Sunflower.   Her poetry has appeared in various journals, magazines, textbooks, and anthologies, as well as in Poetry Magazine and Poem-a-Day.  Brim-Bell has also published critical works, “The Myopic Eye in Alice Walker’s ‘Flowers’” (Critical Insights: Alice Walker, Salem Press) and “Juxtaposed Dichotomies: the idealized white suburban pastoral, the surrealist tableau of Black Poverty & the Women in between” (The Whiskey of Our Discontent: Gwendolyn Brooks as Conscience and Change Agent, Haymarket Books).  Brim-Bell has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize for both poetry and essay.  She is a Cave Canem Foundation Fellow and an alum of Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation (VONA).
 

Brim-Bell hosted a series of Black History Month television programs for the OneWorld Progressive Institute.  She is also a former guest host of Patrick Oliver’s Literary Nation Talk Radio (KABF 88.3, Little Rock), for which she interviewed a variety of entertainers, literary figures, political pundits, and community developers.

Additionally, In Her Image, a ballet based on Brim-Bell's These Women You Gave Me, choreographed by Sarah Grace and commissioned by the New England Ballet Theatre, was performed in Connecticut and on the renowned Alvin Ailey stage in New York City.

A sought-after speaker, editor, educator, and consultant, Brim-Bell is a Professor of English at CT State Community College, Capital.  www.antoinettebrimbell.com.