How a Story Slam Spawned a Chapbook & Chapbook Project
Marvelous things can happen when you trust in the power of a prompt. In 2018 Elizabeth Wolf’s poetry memoir won the Rattle Chapbook Prize and changed her writing life. During the pandemic, she shared that chapbook and a series of prompts with the Prisoner Express program, inviting hundreds of incarcerated people from all over the country to share their stories. In this session we will be reading poems as well as talking about chapbooks and creating prompts. There will be timed writing exercises and a copy of her chapbook Did You Know? is included with registration.
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Elizabeth S. Wolf has published 5 books of poetry, most recently A Collection of Partings (2022) and I am From: Voices from the Mako House in Ghana (2023). Her poetry appears in multiple journals and anthologies and has been nominated for several Pushcart Prizes. Her chapbook Did You Know? won the Rattle Chapbook Prize. Her project with Prisoner Express was featured in Rattle Summer 2022 and her work is included in an archive headed to space with Writers on the Moon.