Inkwell March Workshop with Dr. Geoffrey Babbitt

Clark County Office of Public Arts presents Inkwell Poetry! These monthly online events will feature an accomplished poet mentor who will lead attendees in workshops with unique themes and topics for poets of all ages and experience levels.

As C. D. Wright once brilliantly put it, “Verbal energy on my part is expended on packing words down. I am concerned with density, setting up a chain reaction using the least amount of verbal material.”

In this workshop, Dr. Babbitt will emphasize both components of that compound word equally—work, in its scientific sense of transferring energy, and shop, in the sense of working with tools and machinery. As such, participants will be following Wright’s lead, borrowing her tools, and emulating her methods. To begin, the session will focus on how images work and how to build compelling images ourselves. We’ll then use lines and line breaks to apply torque to the images we’ve drafted, while exerting lyrical compression to generate greater “verbal energy” and more powerful “chain reactions.” Dr. Babbitt will help participants do all this while using “the least amount of verbal material” possible. Join us for what we believe will be a fun and rewarding poetic process!

All ages and experience levels are welcome.