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Creative Writing Workshops With Wick Poetry Center

Mapping Akron
2023-06-21 11:00:00 2023-06-21 12:00:00 America/New_York Creative Writing Workshops With Wick Poetry Center What makes your home, neighborhood, or city unique? This series of workshops focuses on memories and understandings of home. You are not required to attend each workshop in the series. Portage Lakes Branch Library - Community Room

Wednesday, June 21
11:00am - 12:00pm

Add to Calendar 2023-06-21 11:00:00 2023-06-21 12:00:00 America/New_York Creative Writing Workshops With Wick Poetry Center What makes your home, neighborhood, or city unique? This series of workshops focuses on memories and understandings of home. You are not required to attend each workshop in the series. Portage Lakes Branch Library - Community Room

What makes your home, neighborhood, or city unique? This series of workshops focuses on memories and understandings of home. You are not required to attend each workshop in the series.

Participants will also have the opportunity to publish their work online. These workshops are open to teenagers and adults, and all backgrounds and experience levels are welcome. Participants are not required to attend each workshop in the series.

What does home mean to you? What makes your home, neighborhood, or city unique? How does a place come to feel like home? Join the Kent State University Wick Poetry Center each Wednesday in June at 11 am for a series of creative writing workshops focused on place, belonging, and home. Participants will have the opportunity to respond to model texts and visuals with their own memories and understandings of home.

Read more information on KSU's Wick Poetry Center Mapping Akron project by visiting their website. 

AGE GROUP: | Teen | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Education | Community Discussion | Books & Writing |

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