“Turning Family Stories into Poetry”
A 2-session online poetry workshop with Dr. Sandra Faulkner
May 5 and May 12, 2025
18:00-20:00 (London Time)
Online, Via Zoom
Fee: £50
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Do you have some family stories that 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.
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 engages in community-based research focusing on aging and communication across the life course and uses poetry as a form of social justice and activism. Faulkner is the author of Poetic Inquiry: Craft, Method, & Practice (Routledge). Her poetry +images have appeared in places such as Gulf Stream, Ekphrastic Review, andAnti-Heroin Chic. She published five chapbooks and a memoir in poetry, Knit Four, Frog One (Brill). Faulkner has received numerous awards for her teaching and scholarship including the Jack Kay Award for Community Engagement and Applied Communication Scholarship, the James W. Chesebro Award for Scholarly Distinction for Contributions to the Study of Sexuality and Gender, and the Legacy Award from the NCA Ethnography Division.
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