Experiments with Erasure with KRISTINE ESSER SLENTZ (via Zoom)

Who doesn’t love a good experiment; especially when it accompanies erasure? In this one-day workshop, we will work in two parts:

Act one: We will examine the craft of erasure poetry such as redaction, collage, cutout, retyped, visual, and blackout.

Act Two: We will perform expressive revisions by rewriting a new narrative from existing prose pieces using various forms of erasure and additional mediums including sound and image.

Through prompts based within the realm of experimentation, you’ll find your poetic story shapeshifting and developing. Put on your stylish lab coat, and let’s get to some rewriting work!

NB: This class will be taught on Zoom and will be capped at 15 students. Registrants will receive the Zoom link to the email address they use to register. It will arrive immediately after registration so please check your spam folder if you do not receive it. It will also be sent the day before class as a reminder. Please review the course policies page before registering for any classes. Please email ask@writerscenter.org with any questions.

KRISTINE ESSER SLENTZ is the author of woman, depose (FlowerSong Press 2021) and the forthcoming book, The Archives (Kintsugi Books). She is originally from northwest Indiana and the Chicagoland area. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing (poetry) from City College of New York (CCNY). KRISTINE is a Pushcart Prize nominee, finalist in the Glass Poetry Chapbook and F(r)iction’s Flash Fiction Contests, recipient of a CCNY English Department Teacher-Writer Award, and former Rifkind Fellow and Poets Afloat resident. Currently, she is the co-founder and organizer/host of the monthly artist series, Adverse Abstraction, in NYC’s East Village.