By filling out this form, you're able to purchase a work packet and course book for the Emotional Historians workshop. With each packet you'll receive all the materials for six distinct classes, and for each class there will be:
- A one-page bullet-pointed introduction to the class's theme or form
- A suite of poems
- A series of prompts and pre-writing exercises related to the class's theme
- If you and others each buy a packet, I'm happy to set up a private channel for you on the Emotional Historians Slack workspace
Workshop Description:
In the world of people, celebration is often laced with melancholy, joy is a border that surrounds sorrow, and fear is usually one doorbell away from bravery. So, how the fork can we construct poems that acknowledge a complicated and dynamic world? How do we avoid writing that transforms us into caricatures? How do we convey what it feels like to be us, alive at the onset of a new millennium? If the job of an artist is that of an emotional historian, then we must create poems that are as multi-dimensional and layered as the people who write them. If we're to properly archive, we must ask ourselves not whether this is a great poem, but rather, is this today's poem? 📚📝🎈
*Note: This is a generative writing packet and group. There's no mandatory feedback structure. 🎆
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www.jonsands.com 