Join a two-session poetry workshop with Lanesboro Artist-in-Residence Su Hwang on Thursday, April 20th from 5 – 6 p.m. at the St. Mane Theatre.

In this workshop, Su will share insight about the technical side of poetry writing. During the first part of this class, the participants will look at examples of figurative language like metaphors (hey, that’s a simile!), images, line breaks, and sound to better understand their role in poetry. Additionally, there will also be time for writing prompts to help the continuation of ideas.

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.