When we choose to feel, sometimes we find we are in conflict with our bodies, or that our emotions themselves are in conflict. 🪢 This is a poetry class to help you acknowledge and hold your discomfort, whether that’s difficult feelings you are navigating, gender dysphoria, or other duality.

In this somatics-based drafting workshop, we’ll locate what’s alive in our bodies, read poetry by authors who explore complex emotion and body conflict in their work, and hold ourselves in writing. We’ll also have an opportunity to share lines from what we’ve written.

This is a 1-hr online workshop taught by Julia Paganelli Marin. They’re the creator/director of Bee Balm Arkansas.

🎟️ Tickets are on a sliding scale from $20-50. All ticket purchases come with a recording of the class so you can return to this class anytime you’d like.

Julia Paganelli Marin (they/she) is an educator and poet in Northwest Arkansas. They are the creator and instructor of Bee Balm Arkansas, a writing community that centers kindness and attention and engages writers of all levels. Bee Balm centers queer perspectives and modes of being, and is open to everyone. Learn more about Bee Balm at www.beebalmarkansas.com.

Dissonance in the Body: A Poetry Writing Workshop