The Personal
Is Poetic
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DATE
Thursdays
March 20-April 24, 2025
March 20-April 24, 2025
TIME
6:00 - 7:30 pm
COST
FREE
LOCATION
Harvey Milk Recreational Arts Center
50 Scott Street, San Francisco
50 Scott Street, San Francisco
The Personal Is Poetic
Ready to turn your personal story into poetry? Join us for a lively and welcoming six-week workshop where we'll be blurring the lines between diary and verse, drawing inspiration from poets like Ariana Reines, Hera Lindsay Bird, Diane Seuss, and Ocean Vuong.
Through in-class readings, discussions and generative writing exercises, we’ll explore different ways of capturing our day-to-day relationships, desires, and fears on the page—embracing radical vulnerability and the art of the weird shower thought.
Whether you're new to poetry or looking to refine your voice, this is your space to experiment, express, and make your words shine.
Through in-class readings, discussions and generative writing exercises, we’ll explore different ways of capturing our day-to-day relationships, desires, and fears on the page—embracing radical vulnerability and the art of the weird shower thought.
Whether you're new to poetry or looking to refine your voice, this is your space to experiment, express, and make your words shine.
Patrick Jones - Course author
Oliver Sedano-Jones
Oliver Sedano-Jones is a queer British/Latinx writer whose work has appeared in Poetry Wales, The Oxford Review of Books, bath magg, and elsewhere. He has been shortlisted for the Yeats Prize, the Wales Poetry Award and the Plaza Prose Poetry Prize, and his first collection, The Cardboard Sublime, won the Write Bloody UK manuscript contest in 2021. He is currently an MFA candidate in the writing program at USF.*
*This Spring, we are partnering with USF's MFA Program in Creative Writing to offer free student-run workshops to writers in the community taught by MFA candidates. Students Teachers are supervised by their professor, Laleh Khadivi. All workshops in this series are free.
*This Spring, we are partnering with USF's MFA Program in Creative Writing to offer free student-run workshops to writers in the community taught by MFA candidates. Students Teachers are supervised by their professor, Laleh Khadivi. All workshops in this series are free.
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