ONLINE Poetry As Memoir: Generative Micro-Workshop to Tell Your Life Story Through Poems
Monday, February 23, 2026
9am-12pm PT | 10am-1pm MT | 11am-2pm CT | 12pm-3pm ET | 1pm-4pm AT
Instructor: Page Getz
MEMBER PRICE: $60.00
NON-MEMBER PRICE: $80.00
Had a fascinating or weird life that everyone tells you should be a memoir, but it feels too big or just doesn’t fit into a narrative? Poetry frees the writer to capture the essence of the stories and worlds we’ve traveled without the bondage of a linear structure. This generative micro-workshop is designed to help you zero in on three unexpected entry points in your story.
The workshop is rooted in the philosophy that you can tell your life story through the evolution of any mundane ritual or object that has been ubiquitous through your life. By tracing the progression of your relationship to, for example, coffee, or your hair history, you can tell the entire story of who you are and how you got here. In the course of three hours, poets are guided to fill in hyper-specific and atmospheric sensory details of their lives by answering questions in generative sketches to create the bones of three poems, or one longer piece.
This class takes place online using Zoom.
Page Getz is an author and former journalist from California, where she worked for the Los Angeles Times and Pacifica Radio. She was raised in Kansas, which drove her to fiction. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia, where she served as a New Shoots anthology editor and mentor. Her novel, A Town with Half the Lights On, is slated for release by Sourcebooks in April 2025. Her work appears in Tidal Basin Review, Vermillion, Spectrum, Whistling Fire, Apricity Magazine Atlanta Review, Saints and Sinners LGBTQ+ Literary Festival Anthology and her unpublished novel, After the Revolution We’ll All Wear Tiaras, was a finalist for the Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. Obsessed with yoga, socialism and penguins, she lives in Vancouver with her family and a constant procession of animals, not including penguins, but maybe someday.
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