In one of his “Letters to a Young Poet,” the writer Rainer Maria Rilke wrote, “Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves . . . Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”…

We’ll begin by looking at examples of different types of erasure poetry, including the work of Jen Bervin, who erases by lightening or sewing over text, and Sonja Johanson, who uses seeds, petals, and spices to cover text. We’ll discuss the relationship among erasure poetry, found poetry, and concepts like copyright, redaction, censorship, ignorance, and…

Every story exists somewhere, and that somewhere, especially in memoir writing, plays a vital part in how we view ourselves and the people in our lives. The writing of a place needs to move beyond the descriptive qualities of setting, that place is about people, class, and history. Writing about place creates layers of narrative…

Learn the art of writing humor articles in this fun and interactive workshop. Using examples from McSweeney’s and The New Yorker, Richie will show you how to develop a premise, create jokes, deploy satire, and more. Participants will have a chance to write their own titles and workshop ideas while sharing a few laughs. Class meets in-person, Thursday,…

In this session, Adam Sleper will cover the basics of screenwriting including narrative, character, scene-building, and more. Adam will discuss the anatomy of a scene, structure, and character development. Participants will leave with a list of mostly free resources for beginning screenwriters. Adam Sleper is a professional writer originally from Omaha. Adam earned a B.A.…