Trip the Lines Fantastic: Composing Poems That Dance with Tod Edgerton
Trip the Lines Fantastic: Composing Poems That Dance with Tod Edgerton
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Maker, Mentor, Muse & Alta Mesa Center for the Arts Presents
Trip the Lines Fantastic: Composing Poems That Dance
led by Tod Edgerton, author of Vitreous Hide
Sunday, November 2nd - 4pm-5:30pm PDT
Zoom
Free your line…and the rest will follow! In this writing workshop we will discuss examples of “field composition” poetry to explore how it liberates the line from the margins to explode the page. Field composition choreographs the movement of your lines and your readers’ eyes for a dynamic poetic form that takes the reading and writing experience to a whole other level, adding new visual and kinetic elements to your poems and even opening multiple reading possibilities.
Price for this salon is on a sliding scale: $15-$45.
About Tod Edgerton
Michael Tod Edgerton (he/they) is a Queer girlie-boy poet of lyrically fluid gender and genre alike. Author of Vitreous Hide (Lavender Ink), Tod’s poems have appeared in Boston Review (annual contest winner), Denver Quarterly, EOAGH, Interim, New American Writing, Posit, Sonora Review, VOLT, and other journals. Tod holds an MFA from Brown, a PhD from UGA, and has received fellowships from Bread Loaf and MacDowell. He serves on the poetry-editing teams of Conjunctions and Seneca Review, where he is also Book Reviews Editor. You’ll find him swishing along the streets of San Francisco and online at MTodEdge.com. You can read about and contribute to his ongoing participatory text-collage project at WhatMostVividly.com.
Maker, Mentor, Muse is a teaching platform founded in 2022 by Mary Volmer, Maw Shein Win, and Dawn Angelicca Barcelona. Hailing from three distinct backgrounds, generations, and spiritual traditions we believe community is essential to building a satisfying and sustainable literary life and that true success requires balancing all three artistic roles: maker, mentor, muse. In collaboration with Alta Mesa Center for the Arts, sponsored by Orinda Community Church, we are building a place where artists embrace practices that honor process, spiritual growth, connection, and ongoing community with other writers.
Alta Mesa Center for the Arts is an interfaith arts and spirituality hub, housed and sponsored by Orinda Community Church and in partnership with Maker, Mentor Muse. Follow us on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube.