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Imagery & Poetic Leaps

with Liz Whiteacre

2025-04-03 10:30:00 2025-04-03 12:00:00 America/Indiana/Indianapolis Imagery & Poetic Leaps In this hands-on session, we will explore tools we can use to create imagery and consider how images in poems can tap into a wide range of sensory experiences. This session will focus on generating poems, but writers of all genres are welcome! College Avenue Branch -

Thursday, April 03
10:30am - 12:00pm

Add to Calendar 2025-04-03 10:30:00 2025-04-03 12:00:00 America/Indiana/Indianapolis Imagery & Poetic Leaps In this hands-on session, we will explore tools we can use to create imagery and consider how images in poems can tap into a wide range of sensory experiences. This session will focus on generating poems, but writers of all genres are welcome! College Avenue Branch -

In this hands-on session, we will explore tools we can use to create imagery and consider how images in poems can tap into a wide range of sensory experiences. This session will focus on generating poems, but writers of all genres are welcome!

In the 70s, poet Robert Bly wrote about the “poetic leap,” or moments in poems when readers leap from conscious to unconscious thoughts while reading. An image can describe a mental picture for readers, and it can also express emotion, build a world, develop character, provide context, etc. for readers, leaping them to other things that they can bring back into the poem to enhance meaning, add layers. We will start with photographs, explore different ways to create images, and create a poem with imagery and poetic leaps. This session will focus on generating poems, but writers of all genres are welcome!

This workshop is being offered in partnership with the Indiana Writers Center. Check out other writing workshops at library branches this spring!

AGE GROUP: | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Class/Workshop |

TAGS: | Writing Skills | Writing | poetry | Meet an Author Be an Author |

College Avenue Branch

Phone: 317-275-4320

Hours
Mon, May 19 10:00AM to 8:00PM
Tue, May 20 10:00AM to 8:00PM
Wed, May 21 10:00AM to 6:00PM
Thu, May 22 10:00AM to 6:00PM
Fri, May 23 10:00AM to 6:00PM
Sat, May 24 Closed
Sun, May 25 Closed

About the branch

Established as the Broadway Branch in 1924, the library served the neighborhood from a frame house on E. 42nd Street until 1958 when a 6,500-square-foot facility opened on Broadway Street. This aging and overcrowded building was replaced in August 2000 with the current 16,000-square-foot structure on College Avenue that was renamed the College Avenue Branch.

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