A Celebration of National Poetry Month in April

A Poetry Workshop by Rick Benjamin

Associate Director for Community Engagement, IHC
State Poet Laureate of Rhode Island and Author

Thursday April 7 3:30 – 5 pm

Shards & Markings: Poetry as Excavation

In this workshop we will talk and write toward surfacing truths in the geological, historical, cultural and/or personal records. Using a few touch-stone poems as a spur for both conversation and reference, we will explore some ways in which poetry unearths, illuminates, documents or simply brings to light sometimes difficult or uncomfortable narratives that we would do well to remember and acknowledge.

Followed by a Reading with
Teddy Macker
College of Creative Studies Lecturer, Poet and Author

Reading from his first book of poetry This World (White Cloud Press, 2015) that revolves around seeing beauty and the divine in nature and the mundane.
Thursday April 7 5:30 – 6:30pm

Both events to be held at the AD&A Museum beginning at 3:30pm