Poetry Workshop

This group meets every other week and focuses on nourishing and sustaining your creative practice. No experience writing or reading poetry? No problem! We'll spend time reading and discussing poetry, as well as writing together in response to prompts chosen to help you amplify your voice. Expect to receive and share meaningful, positive feedback as we affirm what is strong and powerful in our writing. Bring a poem on paper (we can make copies here at the library) no longer than 1 page if you'd like to workshop. Anyone and everyone is welcome to come anytime. Registration requested but drops-in are certainly welcome!

Kelley Beeson holds a Master of Fine Art in Poetry from the University of Notre Dame and a Master of Library and Information Science from The University of Pittsburgh. She is the recipient of the 2023 Lefty Blondie Press First Chapbook Award for her book Undress. Her work appears in Kestrel, Rogue Agent, The Gulf Tower Forecasts Rain: A Pittsburgh Poetry Anthology (City of Asylum), Kaliope, Pittsburgh City Paper, and is a Pushcart Prize nominee. She writes as a mad-proud member of the Madwomen in the Attic Writing Workshops since 1992.