Join us on Sunday, April 10, 2022 at 2:00pm Central for a generative workshop with featured poet J. Bailey Hutchinson.
DON’T YUCK MY YUM, or, Can I Write a Poem about That?
In this workshop, we’ll confront the fallacy that some things simply aren’t “poetic” enough to write about. We’ll discuss poetry that engages with surprising subjects—from bedsores, boy bands, Batman, and beyond—and generate our own surprising poems together.
Recommended for participants 16 years and above.
ACCESS NOTES: The workshop will take place virtually via Zoom with Zoom auto captions. An ASL interpreter will be present. Access copies of workshop materials will be made available via Google Docs. Our Access Statement will be read before we begin.
Communication Access Real-time Translation (CART) service will be provided with advance request. To ensure that we have enough time to book and allow captioners to prepare, please reach out to the Open Mouth team through Eventbrite or via email at openmouthreadings@gmail.com by March 27 to request CART service.
Register for the virtual workshop by clicking on the “Registration” button on the Eventbrite page, donating any amount you can, and entering the required fields. You will receive an email with the Zoom information.
SUPPORT OUR WORK: Suggested donation of $5.
NOTE: If you are unable to donate at this time, simply enter $1.00 as your donation amount (not zero because Eventbrite won’t let you continue unless you type something other than zero) and click “check out,” then click “pay at the door” as your payment option. Once you have filled out all required fields, you will still be able to register, and you can keep your dollar.
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Support for Open Mouth Literary Center is provided, in part, by the Arkansas Arts Council, an agency of the Arkansas Department of Parks, Heritage, and Tourism, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support comes from our supporters on Patreon, Mid-America Arts Alliance, and the ARt Connect Program. The ARt Connect program is generously supported by the Walmart Foundation and implemented by Mid-America Arts Alliance in partnership with the Creative Arkansas Community Hub & Exchange (CACHE) of the Northwest Arkansas Council. Additional support for Mid-America Arts Alliance is from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Texas Commission on the Arts, and foundations, corporations and individuals throughout Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas.
FEATURED POET:
J. Bailey Hutchinson is from Memphis, Tennessee. She earned her MFA from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, where she served as assistant director of the Open Mouth Literary Center. She is an associate editor at Milkweed Editions, and her work can be found in Muzzle Magazine, Beloit Poetry Journal, and Ninth Letter, among other publications. She lives in Minneapolis.
EVENT HEADER IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
The poet J. Bailey Hutchinson is visible from the shoulders up. She smiles slightly while making direct eye contact with the camera; she wears a black turtleneck under an orange, purple, and green patterned jacket; she is wearing pink glasses and maroon lipstick, she wears dark brown hair down. Photo by Petra Lee.
Author photo appears next to the words “Open Mouth Presents A Workshop With J. Bailey Hutchinson April 10 2022” on a light blue background. The Open Mouth logo—an outline drawing of a mouth with big lips that are wide open to show the teeth and tongue—is behind the text. Logos for our sponsors also appear. The presence of ASL interpretation is indicated by the interpreting hands logo
