SoundCore Exchange: Poetry Workshops

Express your unique estuary experiences through poems and creative literature under the guidance of professional poets!

These free workshops are for anyone interested in the arts to write, read, and learn about the community's shared care for our beloved environment.

Workshops
Conversations with Sea Stars: with Cynthia Pratt
Join us from 4:30-6:00pm on October 24th at the Puget Sound Estuarium as we focus on naming what we know about the estuary—what is there but then writing a speculative poem about the future: What we hope for; what we fear; if sea life could talk to us, what would they say?

Tidepools and Inkwells: with Emily Van Kley and Oly's Poet Laureate Ocean
Join us from 4:30-6:00pm on November 7th at the Puget Sound Estuarium for an exploration of attention, senses, and deep time poetics; each of us will come away with a few poems inspired by the local waters of our beautiful Salish Sea! Come write with the anemones!

Oyster, Osprey, and Orca: with Kathleen Byrd
Join us from 4:30-6:00pm on November 21st at the Puget Sound Estuarium to learn about estuary poetics and then share and write about the more-than-human-world of our home estuary: The Salish Sea. We’ll read estuary-inspired poems, share our own estuary images and stories, and write together. Each participant can expect to leave with a poem draft, a packet of estuary poems, and a deepened connection to our community and to our estuary.

SoundCore Anthology
December 5th, 4:00-5:30pm @ Olympia Timberland Library

All collected poems from these workshops will be compiled into a community-made zine that will be showcased at this free event!