Programs

AFTER THE GAME: WRITING ABOUT SPORTS

What do poetry and sports have in common? Poet Julia Kudravetz leads this workshop that combines reading and writing poems about sports. Beginning with poems by Robert Frost, A.E. Housman, and James Wright, participants will discover how to incorporate sensory, physical language into writing. Participants won’t just view from the sidelines; they will have an opportunity to get in on the action by writing their own lyric poem about an intense physical experience.

Julia Kudravetz teaches undergraduate creative writing in the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars. She has served on the Virginia Quarterly Review's poetry board and will be guest faculty at the 2009 Sweetbriar College Writers’ Conference. She works in Maryland schools conducting Totally Ekphrastic: Picturing America Through Poetry workshops under the auspices of the Maryland Humanities Council.