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.
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In this two-part workshop, we’ll explore elegies, or poems of lament, through the lens of spirals. We can use these curved paths to structure poems, such as through recurring phrases or imagery, and to relax the brain while creating literary responses in conversation with death, loss, and transformation.
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