Summer Flâneur: Strolling and Writing
In this generative writing workshop, we will explore a slice of Portland as flâneurs, or writers who walk and observe as part of their practice. After discussing literary excerpts from Charles Baudelaire, Olivia Laing, Yoko Ono, and/or Teju Cole, we will leave Literary Arts for about an hour and stroll and notice. Some may wish to meander over the Morrison Bridge, meet at a café briefly, and return over the Hawthorne Bridge to Literary Arts. Others may wish to stroll for an hour and be more capricious in their path. We’re encouraged to sketch, take audio memos or photos, or jot down impressions in a notebook. Before we part, we will meet again at Literary Arts to write, sketch, and share our explorations.
Access Program
We want our writing classes and seminars to be accessible to everyone, regardless of income and background. We understand that our tuition structure can present obstacles for some people. Our Access Program offers writing class and seminar tuitions at a reduced rate. Most writing classes have at least one access spot available.
Please apply here for access rate tuition. Contact Susan Moore at susan@literary-arts.org if you have questions.
Liaison position
Every in-person class and seminar at Literary Arts has one liaison position. Liaisons perform specific duties for each class meeting. If you are a liaison for a class or seminar, the full amount of your tuition is covered by Literary Arts.
Apply here for the liaison position.
Alex Behr
Alex Behr is a poet, short fiction author, and essayist and the author of Planet Grim (7.13 Books). An MFA recipient from Portland State, she received a RACC Make-Learn-Build grant to create the adoption interview website project “Altar-Altered: Sacred Objects and Adoption Stories” and a RACC Arts3C grant to produce the short documentary “Grief Stick,” combining her recorded poetry, found sounds, videos, and photographs, directed by Brian Padian. The film is accompanied by a poetry chapbook (Picture Frame Press). She has taught creative writing for more than a decade at Portland State, Corporeal Writing, Literary Arts’ Writers in the Schools program, and elsewhere, including arts-based workshops at the Portland Book Festival. Her writing appears in Tin House, Salon, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Lumina, and Painted Bride Quarterly, among many others, and is featured in fine art and on podcasts.
