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Please register for workshops 1-2 weeks in advance.
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The Not-Travel Poem:
Journaling toward the Civic Poem from Everyday Life
with Margaret Rozga
Saturday, January 7, 12pm-2pm
$25 / $20 members
You don't have to be in Iraq or have a war connection to have things to say about what is going on in the world.
In this workshop, we'll look at some of the poems in Though I Haven't Been to Baghdad and discuss the techniques of close observation, association, reflection, and word play that helped shape these poems. We will also address similar work by other poets. Then we'll engage in guided exercises that use these techniques to generate images, phrases, lines, and even drafts of new poems. A photo of a group of family or friends can aid memory in one of these exercises, so if you have one you'd like to bring along, feel free to do so. We will also provide new paper clippings to trigger memory and reflective response.
Margaret Rozga is the author of two books of poetry, including the newly released Though I Haven't Been to Baghdad. The poems in this collection detail her responses to her son's deployments to Iraq and then to Afghanistan as an Army Reservist. Her earlier book, Two Hundred Nights and One Day, revolved around Milwaukee's open housing marches, was awarded a bronze medal for poetry in the 2009 Independent Publishers Book Awards and was named an outstanding achievement in poetry by the Wisconsin Library Association. In addition, her poetry has been published in journals, such as Nimrod, The Binnacle, Apple Valley Review, and Memoir (and) and included in six collaborative exhibits with visual artists.
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