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Hollie Adams, a writer-in-residence at Acadia National Park, will lead a poetry writing workshop, "Creating Inspiration and Generating Raw Materials"

 Where do poets get their inspiration? How can we write a poem if we don't feel inspired? Rather than simply waiting for inspiration to strike, how can we create inspiration for ourselves? This workshop will provide guidance and prompts intended to help participants find their poems. We’ll experiment with several methods of poetry generation, using images, memories, sensory exploration, the natural world, found texts, and even constraints to create our "raw materials"--notes, observations, single lines, descriptions, etc.--which we'll then shape and mold into first drafts that participants will be encouraged to share with one another in a low-stakes, judgement-free environment. All levels welcome; no experience required. Space is limited to 10 participants.

 Hollie Adams (she/her), of Bangor, ME, is the author of the novel Things You've Inherited from Your Mother (NeWest Press, 2015) and the hybrid prose-poetry chapbook Deliver Me from Swedish Furniture (Zed Press, 2018), which was a finalist for the BpNichol Chapbook Award. She is the current fiction editor of The Windsor Review, and her prose and poetry have appeared across Canada in publications including The Malahat Review, The Temz Review, Contemporary Verse 2, Room, Carousel, Prairie Fire, The Antigonish Review, and Grain. Her writing, often surrealist, dystopian, and fabulist in content, engages regularly with issues of climate change and environment, home and place, and gender and relationships. Originally from Windsor, Ontario, she now lives and works on the homeland of the Penobscot Nation, where she is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Maine.

Adams is also scheduled to offer a poetry reading at the Jesup on Thursday, October 19 at 7 pm.