03/09/2020
Join us at the Ralph Ellison Library on 3/10 at 6:30 PM for the next installment in our monthly series of creative writing workshops presented by Lewis Freeman: "What We Might Record."
Workshop Description: When we are at play in writing, when we are in the compositional time of a poem, novel, memoir, what are we recording? Is it the expression of our interiors that is recorded in the language we put down, a distribution of our unconscious & conscious minds? Is it possible to record something that is entirely not ourselves, to conduct an outside, in literary production? In this workshop we'll approach the practice of writing creatively through a consideration of writing as a technological act of recording. Through a series of writing exercises we'll reimagine writing as a recording event, and think and write through what difference such an approach might make not only to our writing, but to the way we make time for and position a practice of writing in our lived days.
We’ll mix it up with some discussion, do some writing exercises, and then share our work together. As always, all writers of high-school age and older are welcome and attendance is free. For more about this workshop series the Ralph Ellison Foundation presents in partnership with the Red Earth MFA in Creative Writing at OCU and Short Order Poems, please visit ralphellisonfoundation.org/cww/.
Lewis Freedman is a poet living in Tulsa. Books published under this name include Residual Synonyms for the Name of God (Ugly Duckling), Am Perhaps Yet (Oxeye), and Hold the Blue Orb, Baby (Well-Greased); I Want Something Other than Time (Ugly Duckling) is forthcoming in 2021. He has taught creative writing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Oklahoma State University, and Carthage College where he was the 2018-2019 Visiting Writer-in-Residence.
