You Are a Sea Cucumber, You Are a Wolf: Writing Like an Animal presented by Creative Colloquy and the Puyallup Public Library Join Puyallup poet and artist Troy Kehm-Goins Aug 4, @6 PM as we explore the voices of animals in literature. Through examples, writing prompts, exercises, and games we will try to capture our own “animal voice” on the page as a short poem, flash fiction, or the perfect sentence to include in a larger piece. This workshop will be a series of playful writing exercises and games based around writing in character as animals. Most of the games will focus on the poetic form of the "American Sentence," an invention of the American poet, Allen Ginsberg. Grounding these American Sentences in work that is written about animals or from the point of view of an animal or animals, will allow for some creative, imaginative, and playful work for writers of all ages and levels of expertise. This event is FREE to attend but registration is required. https://puyallupwa-gov.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0scu2uqzwjH9SsNHlNL4pIW_Pq3Ie_1SeM BIOGRAPHY Troy Kehm-Goins is a poet and artist whose work has been published in WRIST, Post Defiance, Read Write Poem, Les Sar’zine, and Creative Colloquy, as well as in four poetry chapbooks. In his work, he seeks to discover the holy within the everyday and ordinary. He resides in Puyallup with his wife, daughter, and two canine people, Banjo and Wrigley. Creative Colloquy is fiscally sponsored by Shunpike.