IN-PERSON PAID WORKSHOP
This is a paid Festival program with limited capacity. Registration is required.
Part of the 2026 Tell It Slant Poetry Festival!
Join us for the 14th annual Tell it Slant Poetry Festival, a week of events happening both online and in-person at the Museum!
Tell it and DRAW it in slant with this poetry comics workshop. Suitable for all ages and creative inclinations, come explore poetry through short comics. Comics combine words and images, and like slant poetry, gives us new and complex ways to narrate with the world around us. Participants will learn how to develop visual images to accompany short poems and arrange them in 4 or 6 panel comics.About the presenters
Max Barnewitz is a professor and cartoonist based in Washington DC. Max earned an MFA in Comics from California College of the Arts and an MA in Comparative Literature from the University of Utah. Max’s creative work prioritizes making, sharing, and reading comics whose underground and defiant qualities transform culture. Max currently teaches applied comics at the University of Maryland and spends their free time exploring with their dog, Tally.
Christine Adams earned a PhD in Creative Writing from Ohio University and an MFA in Poetry from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her nonfiction work has been the recipient of awards including the Best American Essays, the Pushcart Prize, and the Terry Tempest Williams Prize. Her poetry has also been recognized by the Academy of American Poets. She lives in Virginia with her dog, Scout.
Support The Tell It Slant Poetry Festival
The Tell It Slant Poetry Festival is sustained by the Emily Dickinson Fund, which provides critical, unrestricted support for the Museum’s day-to-day operations. Your generous donation helps us offer immersive poetry programs to a global audience and preserve the historic Dickinson legacy in Amherst. As the Fund supplies 36% of our annual budget, your tax-deductible contribution is essential to our mission. Join us in inspiring learners of all ages by making an immediate impact today.