The Kentucky Black Writers Collaborative continues the popular Black & Lit Book Club, celebrating Black Kentucky writers’ recent books. We will explore issues related to race and discuss the characters’ relationships, family, home life, dreams, and challenges. We’ll also study aspects of their writing, such as word choice, themes, character, plot, and setting. Registration will […]
Bring your blank pages or your current writing project to the Carnegie Center for a series of intensive and generative writing retreats. Leatha Kendrick will provide writing exercises and prompts designed to help you find the heart of the writing you want to do. Come to deepen your working draft or to find the spark […]
This online workshop will detail the ekphrastic process and provide prompts that will serve you whenever you face the blank page. Elizabeth will guide you to respond to visual and musical prompts, based upon Painted Daydreams: Collection of Ekphrastic Poems, Dancing on the Page, and Swan Songs. A fun, engaging workshop that celebrates all forms […]
Write What You Don't Know: A Workshop in Immersion Poetics with Lynnell Edwards Though we're rightly inspired to write about the things we know best, sometimes looking out and around to the worlds we don't know brings opportunities for expansive new poetry. Sustained attention and engagement in defined environments, whether they be studios, workspaces, institutions […]
Winter Into Spring – A Series of Writing Retreats with Leatha Kendrick Bring your blank pages or your current writing project to the Carnegie Center for a series of intensive and generative writing retreats. Leatha Kendrick will provide writing exercises and prompts designed to help you find the heart of the writing you want to […]
The Kentucky Black Writers Collaborative continues the popular Black & Lit Book Club, celebrating Black Kentucky writers’ recent books. We will explore issues related to race and discuss the characters’ relationships, family, home life, dreams, and challenges. We’ll also study aspects of their writing, such as word choice, themes, character, plot, and setting. Registration will […]
In this online workshop, participants will explore poetic devices beyond the lineation toolkit or completely outside of it. While we will focus on writing the prose poem, we will touch on haibun, monostich, concrete, and various types of erasure work as well. The workshop will conclude with timed prompts for participants to try out the […]
Poetry is news that stays new, Ezra Pound said. What is it of our own lives that will stay new? How do we give voice to this moment in time? It is not so much the what as it is the how of our poems—the line and its mystery, our images and diction, the unexpected […]
Winter Into Spring – A Series of Writing Retreats with Leatha Kendrick Bring your blank pages or your current writing project to the Carnegie Center for a series of intensive and generative writing retreats. Leatha Kendrick will provide writing exercises and prompts designed to help you find the heart of the writing you want to […]
A draft of a poem isn’t a broken thing that needs to be fixed. It’s not a clear, rational argument that needs a little cleaning up, a little editing. It’s a missive from another world that has thus far been only partially-translated. Or, as writes Philip Metres in The Art of Losing (and other Visions […]
Winter Into Spring – A Series of Writing Retreats with Leatha Kendrick Bring your blank pages or your current writing project to the Carnegie Center for a series of intensive and generative writing retreats. Leatha Kendrick will provide writing exercises and prompts designed to help you find the heart of the writing you want to […]
Blah, Blah, Blah Writers' Group will hold a Writers' Crawl that will not only highlight places in Lexington important to writers and writing, but give writers an opportunity to write and share their work, and maybe have a few nibbles or drink along the way. Starting at the Carnegie Center and ending at The Kentucky […]
