Free Write with Shira Dentz

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Free Write with Shira Dentz

In this workshop, we’ll experiment with chance operations, approaching our imaginations through the back door, so to speak, instead of the front door, to compose poems and flash prose. There’s an expansive tradition of literary works composed using chance operations including the cento which is thought to have originated in the 3^rd or 4^th century. Individual and collaborative writing may include experiments with erasures, Ouilipo or self-made constraints, sound and visual recording, and published texts as scaffolding for our own texts. While chance operations is, well, chancy, many sublime creative works have resulted through its “accidents.” This is a great workshop for those who feel blocked or in a writing rut, or who would like to open/add another approach to their writing toolbox, or who would like to gain more flexibility, stamina, and self-trust with bridging their unconscious flow with their conscious process. Please feel free to bring poems or short prose you’ve written that you’d like to reawaken and/or dream material from a dream notebook in which you record your dreams for at least week before this workshop.

Link to my website:
www.shiradentz.com

Book Links:

SISYPHUSINA  (PANK Books, 2020)
Purchase at: pankmagazine.com/shop/sisyphusina/ OR at: https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9781948587099/sisyphusina.aspx

the sun a blazing zero  (Lavender Ink/Diálogos, 2019)
Purchase at: http://www.lavenderink.org/site/shop/the-sun-a-blazing-zero/ 
OR at: https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9781944884475/the-sun-a-blazing-zero.aspx

how do i net thee (Salmon Poetry, 2018)
Purchase at: https://www.amazon.com/how-do-i-net-thee/dp/1910669725 
OR at: https://www.salmonpoetry.com/details.php?ID=453&a=320

door of thin skins (CavanKerry Press, 2013)
Purchase at: :https://cavankerrypress.org/product/door-of-thin-skins/

black seeds on a white dish (Shearsman Books, 2012)
Purchase at:https://www.amazon.com/black-seeds-white-Shira-Dentz/dp/1848611285 
OR at: https://www.shearsman.com/store/Shira-Dentz-Black-Seeds-on-a-White-Dish-p102838646

Chapbook Links:

FLOUNDERS (Essay Press, 2014)
Downloadable at: http://www.essaypress.org/ep-62/

Leaf Weather (Shearsman Books, 2011)
Purchase at: https://www.shearsman.com/store/Shira-Dentz-Leaf-Weather-p102838647
OR at: https://www.amazon.com/Leaf-Weather-Shira-Dentz/dp/1848612273

Broadside Link:
“Scale” by Shira Dentz

Purchase at: https://wells-college-press.square.site/product/shira-dentz-scale/37?cs=true