The Expansion of Poetry within Our Current Media Ecology
Capacious in its scope, poetry can be combined with music, video, and crafts. In this 90 minute workshop, Spenst will show how one can combine various arts with poems in order to encourage thinking, writing and creative expression. Some of the material presented will include poems about music - including "Busking" by Kevin Young - and poems inspired by contemporary music - included "mixed tape" by Katherena Vermette. We'll also learn a little from some music video theorists and look at how the poetry of lyrics are developed into a larger work of art (yes, music videos!) Plus: video-poems and where to find them and what to do once you have them! We'll conclude by unplugging from technology to learn a couple of origami folds and analyzing poems that use origami as a metaphor - including Don Domanski's "The God of Folding."
There will be handouts and a shared google folder for you to access some of the materials. Please bring a pen and/or laptop as there will be some writing prompts.
K-12
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Add To My WorkshopsKevin Spenst (he/him) is the author of Ignite, Jabbering with Bing Bong, and Hearts Amok: a Memoir in Verse (all with Anvil Press) and over a dozen chapbooks. His most recent writing has appeared in the anthologies Event 50: Collected Notes on Writing and Resonance: Essays on the Craft and Life of Writing. His book launch during the pandemic was featured in a book about creative practices: The Creative Instigator's Handbook. He has taught creative writing at Vancouver Community College, Simon Fraser University and has given workshops at elementary and high schools around the Lower Mainland. In 2022, he was the poetry mentor at Simon Fraser University's the Writers Studio. He lives in Vancouver on unceded x?m?θk??y??m (Musqueam), S?wx?wú7mesh (Squamish) and s?l?ilw??ta?? (Tsleil-Waututh) territory.