‘Persona poetry workshop’ honors national poetry month

Jill McCabe Johnson will present a “persona poetry workshop” in honor of national poetry month. She will lead “The Poet’s Masquerade” on Saturday, April 7 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Orcas Library. It will be followed by a poetry reading for the community from Johnson and other Orcas poets at 4 p.m. Both free events are sponsored by Friends of The Orcas Island Library. Register at the library by March 30.

March 19, 2012 7:38 pm
Jill McCabe Johnson will present a “persona poetry workshop” in honor of national poetry month.
Jill McCabe Johnson will present a “persona poetry workshop” in honor of national poetry month.

Jill McCabe Johnson will present a “persona poetry workshop” in honor of national poetry month.

She will lead “The Poet’s Masquerade” on Saturday, April 7 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Orcas Library. It will be followed by a poetry reading for the community from Johnson and other Orcas poets at 4 p.m. Both free events are sponsored by Friends of The Orcas Island Library. Register at the library by March 30.

In persona poetry, poets temporarily speak from the imagined voices of other people or objects. In this workshop participants will read and write persona poems in voices from history, mythology, fiction and more.