Join us 1 p.m.–4 p.m. Saturday, June 2, 2012, at the Sequoya Branch Library of the Madison Public Library for a workshop featuring Wingbeats contributors Cathryn Cofell and Karla Huston.

Wingbeats co-editor Scott Wiggerman will open the workshop with a short exercise by Susan Terris, “Seven (or Ten) Line Poem.”

Cathryn and Karla will take participants through two exercises, “Over My Dead Body: Exquisite Corpse” and “Thrift Shop: Giving and Getting, a Collaboration.”

Wingbeats co-editor David Meischen will conclude the afternoon with “Rube Goldberg Poems,” an exercise by Oliver de la Paz.

The Sequoya branch library is at 4340 Tokay Blvd., Madison, WI 53711. See a map of the library »

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