Body Poetics: A Poetry Workshop

Workshop Description: This generative writing workshop is an invitation to check in with our bodies and consider our bodies alongside our writing. The workshop will begin with an invitation to free write, stretch, and engage in a breathwork session to get us physically and mentally in touch with our bodies. We will then spend the workshop discussing poetry related to themes on body poetics. Loosely defined, “body poetics” is poetry explicitly concerned with bodily existence, features or the whole of the body. These poems ask questions of the body and its relationship to the self, to other beings with bodies, to places and situations. Often, the central question is simply where is the body? Where is the body right now? This workshop space recognizes, welcomes, and embraces the diversity of people's bodies in terms of ability, age, race, gender, class, size, shape.

About the Presenter: Aerik Francis is a Queer…