This event is free, but does require registration via Eventbrite to attend. All attendees should be ages 18+.

Join us on Wednesday, May 1, from Noon to 1 p.m. EDT, as we celebrate National Poetry Month by creating short poems from 1-20 lines (or up to 200 words for prose poems). Host Adele Gardner provides the prompts; you provide the creativity. Interested participants may have a chance to share their micro poems, depending on time (but there is no obligation to do so). Please note that these are inspiration sessions only; there is neither instruction nor critique.

Adele Gardner (they/them, Mx., https://gardnercastle.com) is a fiction writer & award-winning poet with a poetry collection, Halloween Hearts, published by Jackanapes Press (https://www.jackanapespress.com/product/halloween-hearts) and over 500 stories, poems, art, and articles in Analog, Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, PodCastle, Daily Science Fiction, and more. Gardner is a member of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association, Poetry Society of Virginia, Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America, and Horror Writers Association, as well as a graduate of the Clarion West Writers Workshop.