Please note that this is an online workshop conducted via Zoom. Participants will be provided information on how to join the online sessions.
This tuition-free workshop is open only to K-12 educators.
This workshop is full, please sign up on the waiting list here so you receive priority registration the next time this class is offered.
Blackouts + Docupoetry
Join writer and educator Lupe Mendez as this class looks to focus in on the techniques and moves used to create and explore “Blackout” poetry and the concept of “Docupoetry” where poets use already created documents to draw out the language of a new poem. Model texts, readings, and a variety of documents will be provided to help participants play with poetry and create new poems and revise old poems. No prior poetry writing experience is needed.
About the instructor
LUPE MENDEZ (Writer//Educator//Activist), originally from Galveston, Texas, is the author of Why I am Like Tequila, winner of the 2019 John A. Robertson Award for Best First Book of Poetry from the Texas Institute of Letters. He is the founder of Tintero Projects which works with emerging Latinx writers and other writers of color within the Texas Gulf Coast Region, with Houston as its hub. Lupe earned his MFA from the University of Texas @ El Paso and has received fellowships from CantoMundo, Macondo and the Crescendo Literary/Poetry Foundation’s Emerging Poet Incubator. Mendez’s work can be found in Kenyon Review, Gulf Coast Journal, the Texas Review, Poetry Magazine and Poem-A-Day from the Academy of American Poets. He is the 2022 Texas Poet Laureate.
Please note that the registration fee and tuition for online workshops are nonrefundable. By registering for an Inprint Writers Workshop you are agreeing to Inprint’s registration policies. If this workshop is full when you try to register, please sign up on the waiting list here so you receive priority registration the next time this class is offered. For details and a schedule of all the current workshop offerings, click here.
