The Sundress Academy for the Arts is pleased to present Poetry Xfit hosted by Joanna Brooker. This generative workshop event will take place on Sunday, February 20th, 2022 from 2 to 4 pm EST via Zoom. Join us at the link tiny.utk.edu/sundress with password “safta”.
Poetry Xfit isn’t about throwing tires or heavy ropes, but the idea of confusing our muscles is the same. This generative workshop series will give you prompts, rules, obstructions, and more to write three poems in two hours. Writers will write together for thirty minutes, be invited to share new work, and then given a new set of prompts. The idea isn’t that we are writing perfect final drafts, but instead creating clay that can then be edited and turned into art later. Prose writers are also welcome to attend!
JoAnna Brooker is a graduate from the University of Tennessee, where she studied Journalism & English. She is currently the Sundress Academy for the Arts Writer in Residence, & her work has been featured in Figure 1, Jet Fuel Review, HASH Journal, Menacing Hedge, & on stage as a comic. She can be found on all social media platforms @cupofjoanna.
Our community partner for February is The Bottom, a nonprofit multi-space community center and home to a Black-Affirming bookshop, which recently celebrated their grand re-opening in their new home in East Knoxville. The Bottom serves as a central hub to build community, celebrate culture, and engage in creativity through multiple program opportunities and fellowship with and for Black youth and adults.
To learn more about The Bottom, please visit their website at https://www.thebottomknox.com/
To donate to The Bottom, please check out https://www.thebottomknox.com/support-us
While this is a free event, donations can be made to the Sundress Academy for the Arts here: https://sundress-publications.square.site/product/donate-to-sundress/107?cs=true
