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As writers, we all follow certain rules of punctuation, genre, style, and form. They’re useful. They’re necessary. But what if we broke them? And what if we made new rules—wild, out-of-the-box rules—to see what would happen? In this class, we will dabble in Oulipo, a type of constrained writing that delights in playful and peculiar limits. Also known as the “Workshop of Potential Literature,” Oulipo stretches the mind and fuels the imagination.
We’ll delve into multiple Oulipo-ean forms, including the Perverb (chopping up existing proverbs to make a new ones), the Lipogram (omitting one or more letters when writing), the Snowball (growing a poem by adding a new letter or word to each line), and the N+7 Method (replacing each of a poem’s nouns with the noun found seven entries after the original in a dictionary). If you love language, puzzles, and surprises, you’re a perfect fit for Oulipo!
INSTRUCTOR
Katherine Matthews is a freelance writer, editor, and writing instructor. She served as managing editor at PageSpring Publishing and as editor-in-chief of Flip the Page: Central Ohio's Teen Literary Journal. Her work has appeared in Columbus Monthly magazine and, most recently, in the anthology awfully hilarious: period pieces. Her creative nonfiction received an Individual Excellence Award grant from the Ohio Arts Council. Katherine served as committee chair for the Word is Art Stage at the Columbus Arts Festival for six years. At Thurber House, she teaches children and adults and produces interactive mysteries for the Summer Writing Camp.
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