Come prepared for an interactive class where we will engage in warm-up and group exercises designed to fertilize our creativity. Activities will include, but will not be limited to, group brainstorming, shared readings of poems (from handouts), writing from prompts, exploring and peeling away layers of our individual drafts, and asking the poem “What else?”
This workshop is part of the “Black Art Matters” programming series, organized in partnership with Murphy Writing Center of Stockton University.
Subsidized event parking can be purchased for $4 cash in the Noyes gift shop.
About the instructor:
Dr. Gretna Wilkinson began her career as a missionary teacher in the jungles of her native Guyana. The author of five chapbooks; her latest, Opening the Drawer, was published by Cool Women Press. A Dodge Foundation Poet, she has performed her poems on radio and television and is published in Saranac Review, The Literary Review, and Poets of New Jersey: From Colonial to Contemporary, among others. She’s been featured in The New York Times, The Star Ledger, Courier News, and others. After 17 years as a college professor, she joined the Visual and Performing Arts Academy of Red Bank Regional High School where she ran the Creative Writing program. Her online literary magazine, theravensperch.com was nominated Top 10 Literary Blogs On The Web (Feedspot). She is an honorary Eagle Scout, Monmouth County Art Educator of the Year, Red Bank Regional Teacher of the Year, and she was also awarded Claes Nobel Educator of Distinction. Her poem, Washday In The Backyard was recently nominated for the Pushcart Prize
