Sundress Academy for the Arts Presents June Poetry Xfit

The Sundress Academy for the Arts is excited to present Poetry Xfit hosted by Alexa White. This generative workshop event will take place on Sunday, June 22nd, from 2 to 4 pm EST via Zoom. Join us at the link tiny.utk.edu/sundress with the password “safta”.

Poetry Xfit isn’t about throwing tires or heavy ropes, but the idea of confusing our muscles is the same. You will receive ideas, guidelines, and more as part of this generative workshop series in order to complete three poems in two hours. A new set of prompts will be provided after the writers have written collaboratively for thirty minutes. The goal is to create material that can be later modified and transformed into artwork rather than producing flawless final versions. The event is open to prose authors as well!

Alexa White is a neurodivergent writer and graduate of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. As a student, she won the 2022 Bain-Swiggett prize for traditional poetry forms and her poetry and art has appeared in Phoenix, the school’s literary and arts magazine. She lives in Knoxville, her semi-hometown, and is the Creative Director Sundress Academy for the Arts and Associate Editor at Sundress Publications. Alexa takes delight in backroads, bodies of water, and the last few seconds of sunset and she redefines her bedtime nightly.

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