The Free Generative Writing Workshops zoom to you at home. Everyone's welcome to write with this month's wonderful instructor Becca Klaver. Email Lisa at iowacitypoetry@gmail.com to receive the Zoom link.

The Free Generative Writing Workshops provide a space for career writers, curious beginners, writers of all income levels and stages of life. Our goal is to make it easy to meet and learn from some of the most talented writer/teachers living in or passing through Iowa City. Every month a new writer leads a generative workshop, presenting a prompt inspired by their own preoccupations, passions, or interests. It has been an adventure, and we are continually inspired by the creative concentration of participants, and the powerful beginnings the workshop generates.

This month's leader:
Becca Klaver is the author of three books of poetry—LA Liminal (Kore Press, 2010), Empire Wasted (Bloof Books, 2016), and Ready for the World (Black Lawrence Press, 2020)—as well as several chapbooks. Her poems, which explore place, gender, American culture, and virtual and physical realities, have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Fence, jubilat, Gramma Weekly, The &NOW Awards 3: The Best Innovative Writing, and on Verse Daily and the Academy of American Poets' Poem-A-Day series.

Born and raised in Milwaukee, WI, Becca attended the University of Southern California (BA), Columbia College Chicago (MFA), and Rutgers University (PhD). Her dissertation, “Include Everything: Contemporary American Poetry and the Feminist Everyday,” investigates how women poets across post-1945 U.S. avant-garde movements—Diane di Prima, Sonia Sanchez, Lyn Hejinian, Bernadette Mayer, and Alice Notley—invented new forms and processes that responded to the gendered conditions of everyday life.

The Free Generative Writing Workshops are jointly sponsored by Prompt Press and Iowa City Poetry.

Find out more at https://www.freegenerative.org/