Robert Penn Warren, the only person ever to have won the Pulitzer Prize for both poetry and fiction, is rumored to have once described a colleague as being “a great poet, but only on paper.” As a poet with a background in spoken word and the poetry slam, I love that observation in a way that Penn Warren may not have intended. Because it is absolutely possible to be a great poet on paper . . . and nowhere else. In this generative workshop, we will keep an eye on the sonic qualities of the poems we write, balancing truth and beauty, humor and sorrow, as well as playfulness and wisdom. No experience required.