Walk the Line with Lex Orgera

What is a good line of poetry? For that matter, what is a good line break? In this workshop we’ll explore various theories about the poetic line and where and why to break—or not break—one. So many choices: line length versus prose poem; enjambment versus end stop. And what do breath, rhythm, and image have to do with it?  We’ll discuss ideas, look at examples, and do some practice exercises to explore the choices we make in service of walking the line.  

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With KATHRYN SCHULZ and ALEXIS ORGERA. These two memoirs examine the pain of losing fathers, but something else is found in the process of loss, in the process of writing, and in the process of thinking about loved ones. These are powerful looks at how vital an engagement with a difficult past becomes to a hopeful future.

How can bringing other genres and forms into memoir enrich the text? How close must memoir adhere to the facts? What is a memoir, anyway? LAURIE STONE and ALEXIS ORGERA will use their own work to enlarge our idea of the genre and telling the story of our own lives. Hosted by STEVE MITCHELL.

I’ll be reading from and chatting about Head Case at my old stomping ground, Bookstore1Sarasota, where I spent many hours selling books, organizing books, reading books. This one is special because, not only does Sarasota feel a lot like my home turf, my dad was born and died in Sarasota, without ever having lived there in between.

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