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2007 Seattle Poetry Festival Workshop: Poetry & the Visual Arts

Richard Hugo House
Seattle, WA

Instructor Shin Yu Pai will lead students in guided writing exercises on using visual art images for literary inspiration. Students are encouraged to bring an image(s) that they would be interested in exploring through writing. Art postcards and catalogs will be used as prompts. Writing prompts may focus on topics including narrative voice, creating a setting, visual form, and pushing beyond simple description.

Max Number Participants: 15

Shin Yu Pai is the author of The Love Hotel Poems; Unnecessary Roughness; Equivalence; and Ten Thousand Miles of Mountains and Rivers. Forthcoming books include Works on Paper (Convivio Bookworks) and Nutritional Feed (Tupelo Books). She has exhibited her visual art at The Paterson Museum, The MAC, and The Three Arts Club of Chicago.

Admission for the Seattle Poetry Festival is required in addition to your workshop ticket.

The Seattle Poetry Festival Opening Night Party and the Seattle Poetry Slam 2007 Grand Slam are seperately ticketed events:

2007 Seattle Poetry Festival

2007 Seattle Poetry Slam Opening Night Party

Seattle Poetry Slam's 2007 Grand Slam

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The Seattle Poetry Festival is supported by a grant under the Civic Partners program by the Mayor's Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs.

Note: You must purchase a Seattle Poetry Festival ticket in addition to your workshop ticket. Both ticket stubs must be presented to the instructor no later than 15 minutes prior to the workshop start time. After that, the workshop will be open to drop-in students for a $5 fee (plus ticket stub from Festival admission).

Kid Friendly: No

Dog Friendly: No

Non-Smoking: No

Wheelchair Accessible: No

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