Turning Family Stories into Poetry
By: Sandra Faulkner
Location: Books on the Rise–80 Hill Rise, Richmond, London
(online participation also available)
Do you have some family stories you have always wanted to concretize in verse and image? In this workshop, Faulkner will guide participants through the process of turning family stories into poems and collage. Faulkner will discuss how poetry is a way to re-story and show tensions in family life and discuss three techniques she used in her collection of family stories in verse, Knit Four, Frog One (Sense/Brill, 2014) and her chapbook, Buttered Nostalgia (JSPR, 2021). Participants will get practice with dialogue poems, poetic transcription, and collage poetry using family artifacts (e.g., photos, recipes, records).
Before the workshop, it would be helpful to have a family story or two written down and some photographs and/or other family artifacts to use in collage poems.
Bio: Sandra L. Faulkner is Professor of Media and Communication at Bowling Green State University where she writes, teaches, and researches about close relationships. Faulkner’s interests include qualitative methodology, poetic inquiry, inclusive pedagogy, and critical perspectives on interpersonal and family communication. She often uses poetry, creative nonfiction, and autoethnography to explore her own negotiation of identity as a parent, partner, and professor. Her research focuses on how individuals navigate gender and sexuality through interpersonal communication and personal narrative and the use of arts-based research as inclusive and critical pedagogy. Her book, Poetic Inquiry: Craft, Method, & Practice (Routledge), won an Honorable Mention for the 2021 ICQI Book Award. She received the 2013 Knower Outstanding Article Award from the National Communication Association, the 2016 Norman K. Denzin Qualitative Research Award, the 2020 Trujillo and Goodall “It’s a Way of Life Award” in Narrative Ethnography, and the Legacy Award from the National Communication Association Ethnography Division. Find Faulkner online at https://www.sandrafaulkner.online/ and https://bgsu.academia.edu/SandraFaulkner
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