Built Environments: The Craft of Formal Innovation – A Cross-Genre Writing Studio with Saretta Morgan
 
Built Environments: The Craft of Formal Innovation – A Cross-Genre Writing Studio with Saretta Morgan
07/23 - 08/13/2019
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Tempe
Course Details

Course Description:

We experience our lives through form. The layout of a house, the format of a letter, or the etiquette of public interaction. When these forms shift, we are forced to take notice. In this cross-genre writing studio, we will examine how language and narrative develop differently according to structural decisions crafted by the author. Participants will explore how voice, themes and images emerge through attention to life’s many architectures, and experiment with new narrative and poetic forms based on their own unique personal experiences and close readings of a range of texts.

Duration:

4 Weeks

Genre Type:

Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Experimental/Hybrid Writing

Course Type:

Generative Workshop

Course Level

All Skill Levels Welcome

Dates and Times: Summer 2019

Tuesdays, July 23-August 13

5:30 PM to 7:30 PM

 

Author Bio

Saretta Morgan is a writer and artist who uses text and objects to consider relationships between privacy and narrative forms. She is the author of the chapbooks, Feeling Upon Arrival (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2018) and room for a counter interior (Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs, 2017) as well as a forthcoming full length collection Plan Upon Arrival (Selva Oscura/Three Count Pour). She was a 2016-2017 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace Resident and has created interactive text-based projects for art institutions such as the Whitney Museum of American Art and Dia Beacon. Her work has received support from the Jerome Foundation, Arizona Commission on the Arts and the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, among others. Saretta received a B.A. in writing from Columbia University and an MFA from Pratt Institute. She teaches creative writing at Arizona State University.