The Most Valuable Poetry Lesson My Degrees Taught

This is taken from a Craft Write poetry workshop around writing poetry and word choice, connotation, and denotation led by facilitator Denise R. Ervin! Every Word Must Conjure is a 2-hour generative writing workshop that dives into the differences between denotation and connotation in poetry. Specifically, the importance of word choice in conveying not only meaning, but ideas and images in an intentional way. Participants will have the chance to explore contemporary writing by poets of color, discussing and dissecting the syntax of each, and have time to generate new work in response to a prompt along with the opportunity to share.Denise R. Ervin is a creative writer hewn from the streets, classrooms, and boardrooms of Detroit. She has spent more than two decades as a teaching artist, performing poetry around the country, and leading workshops for the likes of Literary Cleveland and the University of Michigan. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Vagabond City Lit, Harbinger Asylum, Third Wednesday Magazine, and others. She is a TWH (The Watering Hole) Graduate Fellow, an Obsidian Foundation Fellow, and a semifinalist for America’s Next Great Author. When she's not serving as a Program Manager for a local youth writing organization, Denise is working on several novel projects and her first full-length poetry manuscript, tentatively titled Palimpsest.The workshop is part of Craft Write, workshops around poetry techniques. To see all of the past Craft Write workshops, and attend the latest with access to a private peer-editing forum, join the Substation at www.diversespoetry.com/aboutsubstation#poetry #craftwrite #diversesDiverses is dedicated to promoting poetry from multi-ethnic, multi-racial, and under-represented writers.