A generative writing workshop benefiting Mission Belonging programs for Veterans, service members, military families, & health care workers.
For this generative workshop, we’ll play with a form that seems to be all about restriction—a poem where your name is the source of all the language you can use. That is, the only words you can use are those made from rearrangements (partial anagrams) of the letters in your name. How can such a restriction lead to a wealth of possibility? We’ll look at two very different examples, then undergo a step-by-step process to build words, then lines.