Exploring the Surreal: Surrealism is Contemporary Poetry

Workshop Description

Are you interested in poetry that pushes—or completely bulldozes—our sense of logic and reality? In this class, participants will read examples of surreal poetry, discussing techniques like persona, non sequitur, and extended metaphor to get a feel for surrealism in action. We’ll read a sampling of poems that take us to the strange, the supernatural, and the dreamlike. Then we’ll try our hand at some generative exercises to help us start off our own surreal poems.

Instructed by Ginger Ayla

About the Workshop Series

The BrainTrust is a sliding scale, affordably priced poetry class!

The Poetry Lab is a community learning space dedicated to mentoring and encouraging poets and writers as they craft their learning journeys. We started in a co-work space in Downtown Long Beach in 2013. Our original Labs covered topics like Diction, Tone, and Voice, Poetry of Twitter, Power of Revision, and Blind Date with a Book. In other words, these workshops were fun and instructional, often taking non-traditional approaches to poetry.

BrainTrust carries on this tradition in the virtual space. We welcome first-time poets, moms and dads, high school students, MFA holders, architects, and artists of all genres and mediums to attend as long as they are ready to write!

Sliding Scale

Please pay what you can! $4-$25

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Ginger (she/her) is a writer and poet who lives in Denver and serves as EIC of The Poetry Lab’s Resource Center. She has a bachelor’s degree in English Lit from the University of Wisconsin-Madison as well as a half-completed but ultimately abandoned master’s in public administration. She’s passionate about learning in community, artistic irreverence, and the feeling of finding the exact right word. Her poetry has appeared in Ghost City Review, Sky Island Journal, and elsewhere.

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