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Join Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Paul Williams and Fulbright Young Journalist Award winner Mallory Noe-Payne in a discussion and Q&A about their podcast, Memory Wars.
ARGS dance students perform immersive works choreographed to poems by ARGS Literary Arts students. Kinsley Stevenson and Iana Robinson: library hallway. Kyah Williams, Iana Robinson, and Sarah Lorish: auditorium hallway. Kyah Williams: cafeteria.
This workshop will explore ways to get out of our heads and into the world to uncover surprising entry points into poems. We’ll look at examples of poems that use materials, scraps, art, photos, collage, erasure, and other constraints to see what kinds of multi-textual poem-like-things we can make. Students will then be guided through several prompts to create quick poem drafts outside our usual comfort zones.
ARGS music students perform jazz classics.
There’s a long tradition of poets assuming persona—from the Greek for “mask”—to articulate what writers struggle to say directly. Masks often magnify an essential feature of voice, which can free a writer from having to account for all the other particularities of self on the page. For example, what might assuming the persona of a tree allow a poet to say regarding loneliness, or rootedness, that the poet might otherwise find difficult to say? This workshop will offer an in-depth look at how persona works in contemporary poetry, and why and how poets use it. In addition to reading and discussing several illustrative poems, participants will also try their hands at writing their own persona poems.
Join debut novelist Kalela Williams as she reads from Tangleroot with accompanying shadow puppets. Kalela will answer questions after the reading.
ARGS dance students perform works choreographed to poems by ARGS Literary Arts students. Merissa Penha and Danya Walker: library hallway. Iana Robinson, Sarah Lorish, and Kade Mason: auditorium hallway. Iana Robison: cafeteria.
"An obsession with untold stories is a source of energy." – Greil Marcus
"Do stuff. Be clenched, curious... Attention is vitality. It connects you with others." – Susan Sontag
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In this workshop taught by an award-winning nonfiction author (Amelia Earhart's biographer) and writer for The New Yorker and The New York Times, participants will discover how to identify and leverage access to create compelling nonfiction stories that stand out in a competitive field. Through engaging exercises and discussion, we will explore the fundamentals of gaining unique access and using storytelling techniques, such as dialogue, plot structure, and humor, to craft pieces that editors remember and want to assign.
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Key Exercises:​
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Access Inventory Exercise: Participants will list three potential stories they can write right now based on their existing access. Then, they’ll identify one additional story they would love to write and brainstorm strategies for building access to that subject.
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Story Enhancement with Dialogue and Humor: Using a provided scenario, participants will experiment with adding a short piece of dialogue and a humorous twist to true stories to illustrate how these elements can elevate even the darkest stories.
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This workshop is designed to give participants the tools to transform good ideas into unforgettable narratives.