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Elsbeth Pancrazi's poem about the city
resembling an anthill
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Monday, Wednesday, and Friday 12:30 – 2:00 p.m.
Are you a young poet? Want to write, edit, arrange, polish, and organize your poems into a beautiful book you make with your own hands? Papercuts is a four-week lunchtime workshop especially for you.
Create and publish a
collection of poetry this summer. Meet other young poets, gain
insight from one another and from instructor Derrick Weston Brown, revise
old poems and create new.
Then transform
your poetry into a beautiful, handbound chapbook, a
pocket-sized book of poems that has a rich tradition in the poetry world. Learn
its history and its how-to’s from visiting local poets and experts, and leave
the workshop with five copies of your own original book.
The workshop will culminate in a
special launch and reception of participants’ chapbook publications at Busboys
and Poets Restaurant & Bookstore or on the campus of Emerson
Preparatory School.
REGISTER HERE
Cost: $250.00 (materials included; please bring a bag lunch each day)
Where: Emerson Preparatory School 1324 18th St NW Washington DC 20036
Contact: info@emersonprep.net or 202-785-2877
Instructor Derrick Weston Brown holds an
MFA in Creative writing from American University. He is the founding
Poet-in-Residence at Busboys and Poets. He also teaches Creative Writing to
high school and middle school students in D.C. His work has been published in
such journals as Warpland, Mythium, The Drunken Boat, Tidal Basin Review, and
Little Patuxent Review, and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2012. His
first full-length collection of poetry, Wisdom Teeth, was released in 2011
through Busboys and Poets Press/ PM Press.
