As part of its celebratory Pride programming, Brickell City Centre presents a series of free collaborative poetry sessions with O, Miami every Saturday morning at 10:00 AM during the month June. Here's the lineup of workshops:

Saturday, June 3rd: Exquisite Corpses//Fabulous Bodies
Pride is a celebration of community--the power to resist inequality and reject injustice when people stick together. In this workshop learn how cooperation has that same power when it comes to poetry. Led by Rani Ruado, learn how to compose an exquisite corpse--a collaborative poetry form that often yields surprising and profound results.

Saturday, June 10th: Poetry as Connection
In this workshop, participants will be guided through a close reading of work(s) by contemporary queer poets, followed by a prompt that invites poems in the form of responses, imitations and homages.

Saturday, June 17th: Lusting for Lists
There’s probably a billion ways for us to write ourselves into the world; one of them is to burrow into familiar forms and mess with them from the inside out. And what’s more familiar, more mundane than the list? How many types of lists are there – the To Do List? Shopping List? List of Pros & Cons? Bucket List? In this workshop, participants will read a sampling of list poems by standout poets and then with the help of suggestive writing prompts write list poems of their own.

Saturday, June 24th: Poetic Form as Representation
One often finds form too challenging and restrictive, but it can actually be a form of queering. In this workshop, participants will learn poetic forms and techniques from ghazals to aubades and see how they can be more liberating than restrictive. Form will be used to show that great things can be made from pressure, and that it’s possible to queer most things—even established “canons” and preconceived ideas. From odes and sex to haibuns and the unusual, find out how form can be a means of freedom, representation, and a way to challenge tradition.

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