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Welcome to Button University!
Poetry with a Pop (Culture) (w/ Patrick Roche)
Pop culture and the media we enjoy can surround our daily lives and color how we view the world, how we understand our reference points for narrative, and how we connect with one another. In this workshop, we will focus on writing poems that engage with different forms or sources of pop culture and media each week: film/television, music, literature, celebrity culture.
For each class, we will tackle some preliminary writing exercises before diving into poems/songs/clips/performances that relate to the topic at hand, analyzing and discussing them as a group. Then we synthesize it all into some prompts that we use for writing and sharing our work. We will also focus on peer editing and workshopping our poems in more detail in the later weeks.
Join us and find out how bringing some pop culture into your poetry can inject tons of fun into the process – and maybe help you see your favorite show or song in a new light, or let it shine new light on you!
Patrick is the author of the poetry collection, A SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE BREAKDOWN
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About Patrick Roche
Patrick Roche is an award-winning poet, mental health advocate, and Carly Rae Jepsen enthusiast from New Jersey. Videos of Patrick’s work have amassed 9 million views on YouTube, making him one of the most popular spoken word poets…. MORE
