VIRTUAL PROGRAM — streaming live for online registrants
This program is FREE to attend. Registration is required.
Part of the 2025 Tell It Slant Poetry Festival!
Join us for the 13th annual Tell it Slant Poetry Festival, a week of events happening both online and in-person at the Museum! Register here to access the Festival schedule:
This workshop provides beginning poets with a framework for analyzing poetry with an objective approach centered on craft elements. With an eye toward formalism, this workshop centers on a streamlined infographic to help writers objectively analyze and discuss any poem — from ancient to contemporary — at the level of craft and technique. Participants will analyze Dickinson’s poems and contemporary examples, and they will generate and analyze their own poetry in response to Dickinson-centered prompts. The key focus of this workshop is for writers to view any poem objectively and ask not: “Is this poem good or bad?” but “What is this poem doing?”.Mary Robles is from El Paso, Texas. She is a current MFA candidate in poetry at Bowling Green State University and Poetry Editor at Mid-American Review. Her work recently appeared in The Adroit Journal and AGNI’s “To Never Have Risked Our Lives: A Portfolio of Central American and Mexican Diaspora Writing,” and she has poems forthcoming in Spoon River Poetry Review and Copper Nickel, among others.
Lucas Clark is from a small farming community in Northeast Ohio. His poetry is mostly concerned with meditating in the experience of nature and relishing the love of close friendships. You can probably find him out in the woods walking, rain or shine.
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Admission to all Festival events is free, but online donations, especially those made in honor or memory of family, friends, or colleagues are heartily encouraged and vital to the future of this beloved annual event. All gifts are tax deductible and will be recognized as part of the Festival.