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Practical Principles of Writing Poetry

This event will be held virtually on Zoom.

This workshop will help emergent and experienced poets rethink the basics of writing poetry, making the act more workable for those struggling with a certain piece or with creating poetry in general. The workshop is aimed at helping poets to stop overthinking their processes and doubting the substance and worth of their work. The goal is for each participant to emerge from the experience with tools they can use to improve their overall confidence when writing poetry.

A meeting link will be emailed to registered participants approximately one hour prior to the start of the program. Staff will be available for help with connecting to Zoom and technical issues beginning 15 minutes prior to the program. You will need a device with audio and/or video and an internet connection to join. If you have questions about this program, please contact Laurie Kincer at the South Euclid-Lyndhurst Branch at 216-382-4880. 

Michelle R. Smith is a poet, blogger, educator, and cultural facilitator in Twinsburg, OH. She is currently the programming associate at Literary Cleveland, a writer-in-residence at the Cleveland School of the Arts, a teacher-writer for Lake Erie Ink, and an adjunct composition instructor at Kent State University at Stark and Cuyahoga Community College Western Campus. She is the author of the poetry collections Ariel in Black (2015) and The Vagina Analogues (2020). Michelle has been published in poememoirstory; Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism; My Soul to His Spirit: Soulful Expressions from Black Daughters to Their Fathers; Guide to Kulchur Creative Journal; The Normal School; and Gasconade Review.