Writing Creatively about the Body in Motion: An Active Literature Workshop

Have you felt a surge of inspiration watching greatness play out on the baseball field or tennis court? Have you run the race of your life and in the end felt like you were flying? Rose from your yoga mat and felt renewed? If you wish you could bottle up that energy and share it with others, this workshop is for you. You will learn how to write with a new acuity about the active body and/or athletics in this workshop. You will be introduced to new active literature luminaries such as Krystal Languell, Andrew Forbes, Shakeia Taylor, and more. We will use creative exercises to inspire you to produce your best embodied work. Please feel free to bring 1-2 poems related to the topic for critique. Suggestions for where to send this type of writing will also be given.

Class meets online Thursday, September 26, 6 – 7:30 pm Central. A link to join the session will be sent 24-hours prior.

Class size: Maximum 18. Minimum 5.

Member discount: Members of Write On receive a 10% discount on all classes and workshops. To become a member, please click here. To receive the discount, members must log in to the website using their unique password and enter member10 in the promotion code box. The code is case sensitive.

Teaching Artist: Sandra Marchetti is the author of two full-length collections of poetry, Aisle 228, from Stephen F. Austin State University Press (2023), and Confluence from Sundress Publications (2015). She is also the author of four chapbooks of poetry and lyric essays, including The Canopy MWC Press (2012). Sandra’s poetry and essays appear widely in Pleiades, Ecotone, Southwest Review, Poet Lore, Subtropics, and elsewhere. Sandy is the former Poetry Editor at River Styx Magazine and has taught literature and creative writing independently and at liberal arts colleges for the past 15 years. She earned an MFA in Creative Writing—Poetry from George Mason University and now serves as the Coordinator of Tutoring Services at the College of DuPage in the Chicagoland area.