Writing the Personal Narrative Poem
In this OnDemand webinar, we will explore how to write our personal and family stories as narrative poems. What are the stories that won’t let us go? How can we transition from private journal writing to effectively communicating our histories to an audience? We will discuss how to begin, persevere through, and conclude our narrative poems. We will also consider when we are ready or when we need to wait to tell certain stories, especially if they are emotionally challenging.
Instructor:
A native of Radford, Virginia, Lisa Kwong is AppalAsian, an Affrilachian Poet, and author of Becoming AppalAsian (Glass Lyre Press), a Weatherford Award in Poetry nominee. Her poetry and creative nonfiction have appeared in The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume III: Contemporary Appalachia (Second Edition); Untelling Magazine, Women Speak, A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia, Anthology of Appalachian Writers, Best New Poets, The Sleuth, Pluck!: The Journal of Affrilachian Arts and Culture, and other publications. She is a 2024 recipient of the City of Bloomington (Indiana) Arts Commission’s Artistic Advancement Grant and is currently working on her second book of poems and a memoir. A multidisciplinary educator, she teaches at Indiana University and Ivy Tech Community College.
