Blank to Draft: Making Poems from Scratch with Armin Tolentino

Though there are a million different ways to write a poem, they all start the same way, with a blank page. In this generative workshop, we'll allow ourselves the freedom to explore, experiment, and play with various poetry techniques, especially sound and metaphor, to turn a blank page into the first drafts of brand new poems.

ARMIN TOLENTINO earned his MFA at Rutgers University in Newark. He is the author of We Meant to Bring It Home Alive(Alternating Current Press, 2019), and his poetry has appeared in Hyphen Magazine, Arsenic Lobster, The Raven Chronicles, and elsewhere.