Just the Facts? A Poetry Workshop with Carla Panciera

Here’s a riddle: What’s fake? What’s real? What’s a little bit of both? Answer: The poems we’ll generate in this workshop. Sometimes, we don’t know what we know. Other times, we make stuff up as we go along. Sometimes, we mire ourselves in the serious work and the serious content that make up our poems. Other times, not so much. In today’s workshop, we’ll use models from Tony Hoagland, Kurtis Lamkin, and Lisel Muller, to generate our own fact-based, facts-twisted poems.

This workshop is appropriate for poets of all levels of experience.

Participants should bring pen, paper, or computer to write with.

Carla Panciera is a writer and a teacher, a mother, a (very novice) birder and (an even more novice) gardener. She has published three collections of poetry, most recently One Trail of Longing, Another of String, longlisted for the 2026 Massachusetts Book Award, a collection of short stories, and a memoir about growing up on her family’s dairy farm. Find out more about Carla and her work here. 

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