Course Description:

Participants will consider the ways in which language shapes our understanding of our bodies and how it impacts our experiences of good health and illness. Through readings, conversations, and writing and movement exercises, we will explore how we describe our bodies and their functions (or dysfunctions), how medicine and healthcare systems describe our bodies and their functions, and how poetry regards both. With a focus on inquiry and creative thinking, students will generate new work and engage with texts—both their own writing and the writing of others—to explore how we write lyrically about the body in health, disease, ability, disability, and more.

Duration:

3 Hours

Genre Type:

Poetry, Health Writing, Hybrid, Generative

Course Type:

Generative and Informative Workshop

Course Level

All Skill Levels Welcome

Dates and Times:

Saturday, July 20, 2019

10:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Pricing:

$89/Regular $69/Student

Author Bio:

Laura Maher is the author of the chapbook, Sleep Water (dancing girl press, 2017). Her work has appeared in The Common, Crazyhorse, The Collagist, New Ohio Review, and Third Coast, among others. Maher holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Arizona, a Master of Arts from the University of Texas at Austin, and a Master of Fine Arts from Warren Wilson College. She lives, works, and writes in Tucson, Arizona.