BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//sebbo.net//ical-generator//EN NAME:Allen County Public Library X-WR-CALNAME:Allen County Public Library BEGIN:VEVENT UID:57687700-a247-40ea-b2b1-fd4ba3d36ff9 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20260715T225823Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20250416T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20250416T193000 SUMMARY:Curtis Crisler's "You Bring Out..." Workshop LOCATION:Main Library\nMain Library X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Main Library;X-APPLE-RADIU S=10;X-TITLE=Main Library:geo:41.07731,-85.1422999 GEO:41.07731;-85.1422999 DESCRIPTION:Celebrate National Poetry Month with ACPL. Spend an evening wr iting poetry with the current Indiana Poet Laureate Curtis Crisler at the main location. Come and find your unique\, poetic voice!.\nhttps://acpl.li bnet.info/event/12766863 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Crisler's "Your Bring Out..." Workshop is based off Sandra Cisneros's "You Bring Out the Mexican in Me\," followed u p by Bao Phi's "You Bring Out the Vietnamese in Me\," Crisler continues a narrative (story) poem theme\, but twists things up by addressing gender. He creates \;"You bring out the woman in me"&mdash\;a narrative (story ) poem about women who&rsquo\;ve affected his life. The participants will create their own narrative (story) poem about another gender that has affe cted their lives and will read/discuss what they created if time permits.< /p>\n

Curtis Crisler is an award-winning poet/author who has six poetry books\, two YA books\, and five poetry chapbooks. He&rsquo\;s been publish ed in a number of magazines\, journals\, and anthologies and is an editor and contributing poetry editor. He created the Indiana Chitlin Circuit\, t he poetry form called the sonastic\, and is Professor of English at Purdue University Fort Wayne.

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