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Sunday Workshop: Allison Funk
March 16 @ 1:30 pm
This workshop will be held in-person at High Low, with virtual attendance options available to those who need it.
Saint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to welcome poet Allison Funk for the March Sunday Workshop! This will be a generative workshop focused on Virginia Woolf’s idea of “moments of being.”
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
Moments of Being
Virginia Woolf writes in her autobiographical “Sketch of the Past” of moments of being—moments of acute awareness that stand out from what she calls the “cotton wool” of daily living. For Woolf, such exceptional instances often involve an image that surfaces unexpectedly and with great force. In this generative poetry workshop, participants will talk about Virginia Woolf’s idea before they identify a personal “moment of being” they will start to put into words.
GUIDELINES & REGISTRATION
Please note: this workshop is limited to 12 participants. Registration is required, and is first-come, first-served.
- Registration is due by Wednesday, March 12
- This is a generative workshop in which participants will draft & revise their own poems
- No poem submissions will be accepted for this event
- Poets will not review manuscripts or provide feedback ahead of time
- Those registering are expected to attend the workshop
To register, email:
[email protected]
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: March 12, 2025
ABOUT THE POET
ALLISON FUNK is the author of six books of poems and the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. She has received further honors from the Poetry Society of America and the arts councils of Illinois and Delaware. Her most recent book of poems is The Visible Woman (Parlor Press, 2021). Individual poems have appeared in Poetry, Paris Review, Copper Nickel, Image, Pleiades, The Best American Poetry and elsewhere. She has been a resident fellow at the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Ragdale, the Hawthornden Castle International Writers Retreat (Scotland), and the Dora Maar House (France). For nearly 30 years she taught Creative Writing at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville.
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HEALTH REQUIREMENTS
Patrons are encouraged to wear face masks when attending Sunday Workshop in-person at High Low.