Sundress Academy for the Arts Presents "Space Adventure: Playing with the Page"

The Sundress Academy for the Arts is excited to present “Space Adventure: Playing with the Page,” a workshop led by Livia Meneghin on Wednesday, November 13th, 2024, from 6:00 – 7:30 PM EST. This event will be held over Zoom. Participants can access the event at tiny.utk.edu/sundress (password: safta).

Short lines or long ones? Tercets or couplets? Sonnet or prose poem? Erasure or free verse? As poets, we ask ourselves questions about form and structure constantly. Words alone are just one aspect of poetry. Where they are placed on the page does just as much work to guide your reader, create meaning, and charge our poems.

In this generative workshop, we will challenge the term “blank page” through play and prompts. We will explore the possibilities of the page, whether paper, digital, etc. We will discuss examples and draw wisdom from writers such as Tyehimba Jess, Alicia Mountain, M. NourbeSe Philip, and more.

Livia Meneghin (she/her) is the author of the chapbook Honey in My Hair and is the Sundress Publications Reads Editor. She earned a Writers’ Room of Boston Poetry Fellowship, Breakwater Review’s 2022 Peseroff Prize, and Second Place in The Room Magazine’s 2023 Poetry Contest. Her writing has found homes in Gasher, Thrush, Whale Road Review, and elsewhere. She earned her MFA from Emerson College, where she now teaches writing and literature. She is a cancer survivor.

While there is no fee to participate in this workshop, those who are able and appreciative may make donations directly to Livia Meneghin via Venmo: @Livia-M-1

This event is brought to you in part by grants provided by the Tennessee Arts Commission.