A Guided Generative Poetry Workshop: Finding Lightness in a Painful Estrangement

Join Barbara Regenspan for a free guided generative poetry workshop for non-poets and experienced poets! The event will consist of a brief poetry reading and generative writing workshop on the subject of finding lightness in a painful estrangement. Barbara will read her poems resonant with her own experience and speak briefly about the magic of poetry to express humor and lightness around the heavy experience of being estranged from one’s child. The workshop will include two twelve minute generative writing sessions for the participants and a voluntary reading of drafts. About Barbara Regenspan: For many years Barbara Regenspan taught leadership in social justice-focused education at Colgate University. Her second book, Haunting and the Educational Imagination, inspired in her a new passion for poetry. Now living in Ithaca, NY with her husband David, she writes poems, prose, and opinion pieces, and leads the Cascadilla Writer’s Group. With a friend in Wuhan, China, she is exploring a poetry of daily life for challenging times. For more about Barbara, visit her faculty page at Colgate University, and check out her book The Chessmaster’s Daughter.