Mischief, Mermaids, and Mismanagement : A Poetry Hotline

A curated, collaborative poetic happening In the new age of social distancing, poetics and collaboration don’t get much attention, but we would like to use experimental poetic techniques to facilitate collaborating, creating, and connecting through poems and mischief. This happening takes inspiration from the childhood game Telephone, where a message whispered and passed from player to player morphs in meaning through repetition and revision. In our version, Emily Dickinson poems get passed and morph into thirteen new shapes. Our hope is that participants, regardless of their familiarity with poetry, will engage this happening as an opportunity for like-minded creative miscreants to socialize and share with poetry as a focal point. Participants will leave this happening with two collaboratively revised Emily Dickinson poems, a smattering of poetry dates to share with friends and goes, and sparks for original creative work