On Thursday, Jan 16, from 7-9 pm, EST, Mary Christine Delea, will lead a virtual writing workshop titled "Writing with Sandburg".
Carl Sandburg’s work is filled with vivid descriptions, memorable metaphors, colloquial language, socio-political commentary, and a desire to understand everything and everyone around him. In this interactive workshop, we will look at some Sandburg poems and use them as a springboard for poems, flash, and prose. I will provide a number of prompts that will familiarize you with his work while also challenging you to write pieces that are uniquely yours. This workshop will be very interactive, and students who wish to share what they write during our time together will be able to do so.
The goals for this workshop are to read and appreciate some less familiar Sandburg poems, to understand how prompts can allow us/force us to write pieces we would not have without the prompt, and to feel comfortable with the process of creating first drafts that we know we will need to revise.
Writers of all skill levels, publishing experience, and backgrounds are welcome. Come and be inspired by Carol Sandburg poems! This workshop will be hosted on the Zoom platform, participants will be sent a Zoom link before the workshop. The Friends of Carl Sandburg at Connemara sponsor the monthly writer's workshops, among many other public programs.
Writer Bio: Mary Christine Delea, who goes by Christine, is the author of The Skeleton Holding Up the Sky (Main Street Rag Press) and 3 chapbooks. Her poems have appeared in Mid-American Review, The MacGuffin, The Comstock Review, Honest Ulsterman, New Ohio Review, Zone 3 and many other journals, as well as anthologies about, among other topics, Elvis Presley, Appalachia, and food. She grew up on Long Island and has lived in Ohio, Maine, West Virginia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Dakota, Colorado, and now Oregon. Delea has a Ph.D. in English/Creative Writing from the University of North Dakota and has taught at a number of colleges and universities (besides also doing social work, improv comedy, retail management, summer camp, and a stint as an AmeriCorps volunteer). She currently volunteers for a number of organizations
