Organic Density vs The Machine: A Poetry Workshop
Explore
| September 26, 2026 | 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm |
- TypeVirtual
- Event Linkwww.alpurdy.ca
About Organic Density vs The Machine: A Poetry Workshop
With Nick Thran
Saturday, September 27th from 4pm AST, 3 ET, 1 PT
90 minutes
In a time when phones can deliver a dozen rhyming couplets about “Making a Pancake in Syracuse” in milliseconds, what do we hope to do when we set out to write our own poems? What makes our own writing feel ‘organic’ or ‘authentic’? Join poet, poetry editor, and former A-frame resident (2013) Nick Thran for a special ninety-minute online workshop that focuses on narrative poetry: on getting the granular, interesting details from our individual lives down on the page; on discovering, within our poems, how details from our lives can interact or intersect with our specific interests (other poems, people, stories, artwork, films, music, hobbies, etc.); and on ways to build 'task-free' imaginative leaps, breaks, or surprises into our writing.
Nick Thran is the author of four collections of poems and one mixed-genre collection of stories, essays, and poems (If It Gets Quiet Later On, I Will Make a Display). Born in Prince George, British Columbia, Nick has lived for the past decade on Wolastoqey territory in Fredericton, New Brunswick, where he works as a bookseller and poetry editor. Nick’s second collection, Earworm, won Ontario's Trillium Book Award for Poetry and his debut collection was shortlisted for the League of Canadian Poets' Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. His most recent collection, Existing Music, was a finalist for the New Brunswick Book Awards’ Fiddlehead Poetry Prize.
To register e-transfer $25 to info@alpurdy.ca
Space is limited.
Learn More