Poems in Pieces: Building Something Weird from What We Love

An online poetry workshop with Nellie Bridge
Tuesdays, November 3,10,17 & 24
6:00 – 7:30pm Pacific Time
Registration: $180 or $160 for Fishtrappers

Is the registration fee an obstacle for you to attend this workshop? Fishtrap offers a limited number of scholarships to help with the cost. Contact Program Director Mike Midlo for more information. mike@fishtrap.org

This generative workshop takes our favorite poems as starting points. By looking closely at these poems and borrowing pieces of their structure, we will create multiple blueprints for our use—and reuse—in drafting new and sometimes strange poems. We will write together, discover together, and share together new poems from our favorite parts of the ones we love. All ages and levels of experience are welcome.

Nellie Bridge is a poet and teacher living on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State. She is serving as Clallam County’s 2nd Poet Laureate and anticipating the release of her first full-length collection of poems, Holes in the Ship of Theseus, from Black Spring Press Group/Simon & Schuster this February. Nellie loves facilitating expressive writing workshops with people of all ages. She earned her MFA from NYU, and has published poems recently in Vagabond, Nouveau Re:AL, Tethered Literary, Volume, and Press Pause Press.