The Free Gen with Warren Longmire

Co-sponsored by PorchLight and Iowa City Poetry, the Free Generative Writing Workshops provide a space for career writers, curious beginners, writers of all income levels and stages of life. Our goal is to make it easy to meet and learn from some of the most talented writer/teachers living in or passing through Iowa City. Every month a new writer leads a generative workshop, presenting a prompt inspired by their own preoccupations, passions, or interests. It has been an adventure, and we are continually inspired by the creative concentration of participants, and the powerful beginnings the workshop generates.

Warren is a writer, technologist, and educator from the bad part of North Philadelphia. Warren's work has been published in journals including Action, Spectacle, The Cleveland Review of Books, R&R, and The American Poetry Review. He was featured in the Best American Poetry 2021. His latest book, Bird/Diz [an erased history of bebop]…