1:30-4:30, Room 108, Evanston Public Library (Church & Orrington)
Hannah Gamble is the author of Your Invitation to a Modest Breakfast, selected by Bernadette Mayer for the 2011 National Poetry Series and published by Fence Books. She has been a guest on podcasts such as Radio Free Albion with Chicago poet Tony Trigilio and Portland’s Late Night Library with Paul Martone. Her poems appear in recent issues of The Laurel Review, Forklift Ohio, and jubilat. You can find her blogs and online articles at the Poetry Foundation and the Poetry Society of America.
Topic: This forum will explore a writer’s creation-anxiety as the primary source of writer’s block and will examine surrealist game techniques, collaborative poetry, and imitation as reliable methods of overcoming this very common challenge to a writer’s productivity and enjoyment of the craft.
*$5 – $10 donation appreciated.
This project is partially supported by grants from: Poets & Writers, the Illinois Arts Council and The MacArthur Fund for Arts and Culture at the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation
