Forms & Features with Naoko Fujimoto

All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop, “GLYPH-cation! Learn & Create Hybrid Poetry,” created and led by Naoko Fujimoto.

In this session, we will focus on the hybrid genre in poetry. We will learn and observe examples of visual poems and translate your own written poems into graphic elements. For this process, participants will also learn how to choose and edit their words and images, which is a useful technique for creative practices.

Naoko Fujimoto (she/her) was born and raised in Nagoya, Japan, and studied at Nanzan Junior College. She was an exchange student and earned a BA and an MA from Indiana University. Her poetry collections include We Face the Tremendous Meat on the Teppan, winner of the C&R Press Summer Tide Pool Chapbook Award (2022); Where I Was Born, winner of the editor's choice by Willow Books (2019); Glyph: Graphic Poetry=Trans. Sensory by Tupelo Press (2021); and four chapbooks. She is a RHINO associate and translation editor, a Tupelo Quarterly translation editor, and a Bread Loaf Translation Scholarship recipient.

Registration is required for this event. To allow for more poets to participate in workshops with Visiting Teaching Artists, participants will be registered for the November workshop with Naoko Fujimoto or the December workshop with Gabriela Denise Frank, but not both sessions. This program is for adult participants, aged 18 and older.

Closed captioning is available via Google Meet. We are happy to provide ASL interpretation. Please let us know at least one week in advance, if possible, if you would benefit from an ASL interpreter in attendance. If you would benefit from any other accessibility measures, please contact us by emailing library@poetryfoundation.org. To learn more about Google Meet’s built-in accessibility features visit https://support.google.com/meet/answer/7313544?hl=en.