The Golden Shovel: A Poetry Workshop
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Expand your poetry repertoire by learning about “the golden shovel,” a format created by poet Terrance Hayes to honor Gwendolyn Brooks. The golden shovel poem is set in the tradition of the cento and erasure but offers a lot more creativity than other found poetry. Writing such a poem encourages us to borrow lines in order to create something new. Come try this fresh way of writing poems as we embrace and document voices around us.
Instructor: Gail Hosking
Gail Hosking is the author of the memoir Snake’s Daughter and the poetry chapbook The Tug. She holds an MFA from Bennington College and has taught for many years at RIT. Two of her recent essays were considered “most notables” in Best American Essays of 2014 and 2015.
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