Also known as found poetry or erasure, create a poem out of an existing text by removing words on the page to reveal a new message. Using old books, newspapers, magazines and more, have fun playing with the space on the page and get as creative and artistic as you desire. Who knew that blacking out with a Sharpie pen could become an addictive, satisfying, and expressive new habit?
About the instructor: Rayya Liebich (she/her) is a writer and educator of Lebanese and Polish descent. She is the author of the award-winning chapbook Tell Me Everything (Beret Day Press) and full-length poetry collection Min Hayati (Inanna Publications). Passionate about writing as a tool for transformation and changing the discourse on grief, she is currently obsessed with nonlinear forms of Creative Nonfiction and has completed a hybrid memoir on her simultaneous experience of motherhood/mother-loss. A finalist in 7 CNF contests in the past two years including the CBC Nonfiction Prize, she is the 2022 winner of The International Amy MacRae Award for Memoir, and, The Federation Of BC Writers Literary Contest. She believes in the power of words to change minds and hearts and in the responsibility and privilege of poets to be truth tellers and to record poems as a testimony to history.
Date: Sunday, August 11th
Time: 1:30-2:30PM
Location: 421 Victoria Street at The Capitol Theatre