Poetry Workshop featuring Jennifer Browne - In-Person Option

This is a hybrid event. In-person and virtual registrations are separate. This is the registration for in-person attendance. If you wish to attend virtually (via Zoom), please go to this link:

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About the Workshop “The Making of a Killer Serial: What’s to be Found in a Poem’s Recombinant DNA”

Participants will examine and interrogate sample serial poems for the shared elements that make them what they are—variation, repetition, reflexivity, modularity and "revisioning"—and put those elements into practice in their own writing by drafting serial poems (and sharing those drafts to their level of comfort).

Why Serial Poems?

The serial poem (or poem in sequence) offers novel opportunities for poets to play with assemblage and arrangement, to disrupt their narrative tendencies, or to contextualize their images. Essayists may appreciate (and find familiar) the serial poem's braided or collage structure as a framework for organizing prose.

About the Poet

Jennifer Browne falls in love easily with other people’s dogs. She is the author of American Crow (Beltway Editions, 2024) and the poetry chapbooks Before: After (Pure Sleeze Press, 2025); In a Period of Absence, a Lake (Origami Poems Project, 2025); whisper song (tiny wren publishing, 2023); and The Salt of the Geologic World (Bottlecap Press, 2023). Jennifer directs the Center for Literary Arts at Frostburg State University in Maryland, where she has taught since 2008. Her students frequently describe her as “passionate,” “knowledgeable,” and “boring.” Find her at linktr.ee/jenniferabrowne. Before: After is a chapbook of prose poems observing the 2024 election through a lens of historical events, including John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, the 1948 Donora (PA) smog, and the Johnstown Flood. The collection features serial poems which serve as good examples in the lead up to the January workshop.

Workshop location details

Northwood-High Building
2231 North High St. Room 100
Columbus, OH 43201

In-person attendance is limited to 40. This event is open to the public.

Registration closes on Friday, January 9, 2025, at 5 p.m. EDT.

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