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Poetry for the People

Online workshop
2020-10-18 15:00:00 2020-10-18 16:30:00 America/Chicago Poetry for the People Join Elgin's Poet Laureate in a writing workshop modeled after June Jordan's Poetry to the People, a grassroots approach. Explore poetry writing even if you have never written poetry before. Virtual -

Sunday, October 18
3:00pm - 4:30pm

Add to Calendar 2020-10-18 15:00:00 2020-10-18 16:30:00 America/Chicago Poetry for the People Join Elgin's Poet Laureate in a writing workshop modeled after June Jordan's Poetry to the People, a grassroots approach. Explore poetry writing even if you have never written poetry before. Virtual -

Join Elgin's Poet Laureate in a writing workshop modeled after June Jordan's Poetry to the People, a grassroots approach. Explore poetry writing even if you have never written poetry before.

In each session, participants will engage with a collection of poems around a particular theme, write poems and share, if they desire, those poems with the group.

Chasity Gunn, who is also an English professor at Elgin Community College, will facilitate the workshop.

Please Register to receive link to the program via Zoom. (Please check your spam/junk folder if you don't see the confirmation link)

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AGE GROUP: | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Book Clubs & Discussion Groups |

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