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Poetry Pollinators Present
SHOUT OUT! POETRY OF WITNESS/TRUTH TELLERS/ECOJUSTICE
A POETRY WRITING INTENSIVE WITH PAM USCHUK
Joy Harjo WROTE, “Poets are truth tellers. We must turn slaughter into food.” In the spirit of these truths about poetry, poet and editor Pam Uschuk will lead a generative poetry workshop using model poems from the 20th Anniversary anthology, TAKING LIBERTIES and THE NATURE OF NATURE AND HUMAN NATURE. She will talk about what makes an effective poem of witness and/or ecojustice poem, how to avoid being didactic, how to empower by use of metaphor, rhythm, mixed-genre and language. The emphasis will be on solutions, not doom, questions, not answers. Model poems will include those by Luis Alberto Urrea, Rita Dove, Naomi Shihab Nye, Carolyn Forché, Richard Jackson, Joy Harjo, Octavio Quintanilla, Linda Hogan, J. Drew Lanham, and others. Pam will provide a poetry prompt, and participants will write a poem during the session.
About Pamela Uschuk
Author of eight books of poems, Pam has garnered many awards, including the American Book Award, the Dorothy Daniels Writing Award from the American League of Pen Women, Best of the Web, War Poetry Award, the Struga Poetry Prize for a theme poem, King's English Poetry Prize and prizes from Ascent and Amnesty International. She is a Black Earth Institute Senior Fellow and board member as well as being editor-in-chief of Cutthroat, a journal of the arts. In Spring 2024 she was the Pearl S. Buck Visiting Writer at Randolph College in Lynchburg, Virginia. When she's not writing, she's hiking with her dog Talulah and husband William Root or birding anywhere she can. Learn more about award-winning poet Pamela Uschuk at pamelauschuk.com.
Poetry Pollinators is an eco-poetry public art initiative dedicated to empowering poetry, art, and education in support of native bee populations. Learn more about Poetry Pollinators at poetrypollinators.wixsite.com/hello.