Speaking your truth despite the obstacles: a poetry and prose workshop (online) with Jeffrey Lee

This creative writing workshop’s intent is to enable participants to overcome the many ways that one can avoid saying what really matters and what is the most meaningful to oneself. Some fun and/or challenging exercises will be offered to enable participants to identify their own areas of difficulty, their own taboo areas. Some exercises may be aimed at understanding how fear and outrage can be transformed into tools for developing empathy in writing. There may also be some time set aside to discuss the importance of speaking truthfully in an era when lying works so extraordinarily well.

Teacher bio:
Jeffrey Ethan Lee’s novel The Autobiography of Somebody Else was published by White Pine Press (2016.) His poetry book, identity papers, was a 2006 Colorado Book Award finalist and his first poetry book, invisible sister (Many Mountains Moving Press, 2004), was praised in American Book Review etc. Towards euphoria was co-winner of the editor’s poetry chapbook prize from Seven Kitchens Press (2012). He won the 2002 Sow’s Ear Poetry Chapbook prize ($1,000) for The Sylf (2003), and the chapbook Color Schemes was a finalist for Moonstone’s first poetry chapbook prize in 2015. He has taught Creative Writing at Muhlenberg College, Temple University, West Chester University, University of Northern Colorado, etc.

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