Join Lanesboro Artist-in-Residence, writer Su Hwang, for a workshop on finding poetry regardless of one’s surroundings on Thursday, April 13th from 5 – 6 p.m. at the St. Mane Theatre.

In this workshop, Su will share tips and tools from her process of finding poetry everywhere. Participants in the group will play some ice breaker games and then work on some poetry prompts that anyone can do. Examples of these techniques that Su herself is well-versed in include erasure poetry, centos, and a take-home haiku collage project.

Su will be working on a special writing project as the Lanesboro Arts Artist in Residence from April 7th to May 5th, 2023. During her residency at Lanesboro Arts, Su Hwang will explore themes of place, belonging, othering, and our interconnectedness to one another and the natural world. Through informal, one-on-one interviews, broad-stroke lessons on the foundations of poetry, solo discovery walks (weather permitting), and community engagement to bridge personal and cultural divides through the power of poetry, participants will co-create a living chapbook anthology by writing a personal portrait exploring these themes and the people who call Lanesboro home.

About Su Hwang

Su Hwang (she/her) is a poet, activist, stargazer, and the author of Bodega (Milkweed Editions), which received the 2020 Minnesota Book Award in poetry and was named a finalist for the 2021 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Born in Seoul, Korea, she was raised in New York then called the Bay Area home before transplanting to the Midwest. A recipient of the inaugural Jerome Hill Fellowship in Literature, she is a teaching artist with the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop and is the cofounder, with poet Sun Yung Shin, of Poetry Asylum. Su currently lives in Minneapolis.