Inspiring Poetry

A Writing Workshop with Linda McCauley Freeman

Thursday, January 23 from 6:00-8:00pm

What inspires you to write? Nature, experience, memory? For many writers, inspiration also comes from reading and learning from the work of other writers. But what is stealing? What is borrowing? What is plagiarizing? In this age of AI, these questions are more crucial than ever. In this hands-on workshop, attendees will examine and discuss what generates a poem and how to acknowledge its origin, look at poems that have inspired other poems, and be inspired to write ourselves.

Registration is required. Register at marlborolibrary.org.

About the Presenter

Linda McCauley Freeman is the author of the full-length poetry collections The Marriage Manual (BWP, 2024) and The Family Plot (Backroom Window Press, 2022), and has been widely published in international journals, including in a Chinese translation. She was nominated for a Pushcart Prize 2022. Recently she was the featured poet in The Poet Magazine, and appeared in Delta Poetry Review, Amsterdam Quarterly, and won Grand Prize in StoriArts’Maya Angelou poetry contest, and honorable mention in the 2024 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards. Lines from one of her poems were selected by Kwame Alexander to use in his Civil Community Poem and are on display at the Civil Rights Memorial Museum in Montgomery, Alabama. She received a grant from Arts MidHudson and was selected for Poets Respond to Art 2020, 2021 2022 and 2024 shows. She was a three-time winner in the Talespinners Short Story contest judged by Michael Korda. She has an MFA from Bennington College and is the former poet-in-residence of the Putnam Arts Council.She lives in the Hudson Valley, NY. Follow her at www.Facebook.com/LindaMcCauleyFreeman