Poetry Workshop: Shakespeare’s Wordsmithing Birthday Party

Shakespeare’s Wordsmithing Birthday Party

Sat., April 23rd from 9:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.

FCC will have John Davis lead an in-person Poetry Workshop.

Theme: Celebrate Shakespeare’s birthday with a poetry workshop devoted to the form he invented! In this session, John Davis Jr. will teach participants to write the Shakespearean sonnet and have fun while doing so! Come on out to create a formal poem worthy of The Bard himself.

Instructor Bio: John Davis Jr. is a seventh-generation Floridian whose poetry has been published in dozens of literary venues internationally. His poems have been repeatedly nominated for the Pushcart Prize and other laurels, and his books, Middle Class American Proverb (Negative Capability Press, 2014) and Hard Inheritance (Five Oaks Press, 2016) have also been critically acclaimed. He teaches English, Literature, and Creative Writing for colleges in the Tampa Bay Area, and resides in Riverview.

Tuition: FREE