Join us on Jul. 9 & 10 for a two-day virtual poetry reading & workshop featuring and facilitated by poet Sara Mae.

Friday, July 9 @ 5 PM: Poetry Performance and Q&A
Free and open to the public.
On Instagram Live. Follow us for a notification when we go live.

Saturday, July 10 @ 5 PM: Mood Board Poetry Workshop
Free and open to the public.
Workshop will be conducted via Zoom.
Pre-registration for the workshop is required as there is a limited number of seats available.

Register here for The Mood Board Poem Workshop

The Mood Board Poem: Scotch Taping Color Schemes to the Walls of Our Poetic Universes

This workshop is meant to get participants looking for the connections in everything & pulling thread from the fabric of the universe to embroider our own art. It invites participants to come up with a vocabulary, a color palette, a mood board for moments in the universe when everything feels in harmony. It uses the connective tissue of seemingly mundane images to tell a story.

Sara Mae is a white, nb poet and fashion witch raised between Baltimore and Annapolis, Maryland. Their work can be found in Boog City, Pigeon Pages, december magazine and elsewhere. Their first chapbook, Priestess of Tankinis, is out via Game Over Books. They perform burlesque as All the Way Mae Morbid, and write sad pop music as The Noisy. They will be an MFA candidate at UT Knoxville this coming fall.
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While both programs are free and open to the public in hopes to provide access to the arts without financial barriers, we encourage those who are able to give a suggested donation of $5-25 to support Common Folk's creators and programming.

Venmo @wearecommonfolk and write "Literary Arts" in the description to make a gift.

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For questions, contact Shan Cahill, literary arts coordinator, at cahill.shann@gmail.com⁠
Learn more about the Common Folk Literary Arts department at commonfolk.org/folktales⁠