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MAD Arts
481 S Federal Hwy, Dania Beach, FL 33004
A Tactile Poetic Experience with MAD Arts
Join South Florida poet Carolene Kurien at MAD Arts on Saturday, June 28th, for a generative writing workshop inspired by the artwork on display.
This fourth iteration of the five-part workshop series* will focus on how the words in a poem can be made tangible. We can physically hold a book, paper, or electronic device containing a poem, but we cannot hold the poem itself. How, then, can we evoke a reader’s sense of touch within a poem? Can a reader feel carried by a poem without being able to carry the poem?
This will be a time for learning, creation, reflection, and community. Writing materials will be provided by MAD Arts.
RSVP by sending an email to art@yeswearemad.com with the subject line: Poetry Workshop.
Mark your calendar for the last workshop in the series, which will be on Saturday, August 2nd.
*Anyone who participates in one workshop session will be able to continue with the rest of the workshop series at no additional cost.
theVERSEverse – a women-led collective of poets, artists, and creative technologists – commissions, curates, and sells digital poems, emphasizing craft and creating lasting value that can support artists financially. In this literary gallery, poem = work of art. Founded in November 2021 by Ana María Caballero, Kalen Iwamoto, and Sasha Stiles — with Elisabeth Sweet joining thereafter to support communications and community outreach — theVERSEverse is a collective of poets, writers, artists, editors, curators, and creative technologists working to unlock the literary potential of the blockchain.
Carolene Kurien is a Malayali-American poet from South Florida. Her work has garnered support and recognition from MacDowell, Tin House, The Miami Book Fair Emerging Writer Fellowship, Poetry Society UK, and Bellevue Literary Review. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in Poetry London, RHINO, Sixth Finch, Barrelhouse, The Cincinnati Review, Southeast Review, and elsewhere. She currently serves as the Poetry Editor of Okay Donkey. You can learn more at carolenekurien.com.
