“Poets/ Who are these people/ Whose declining vision/ Attenuates toward some miserably admissible, intentional complexity/ Why write poems/ I really don’t know”
-Ariana Reines, from “Mercury”
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SOCIOPOETIK is…
a poetry experiment with TABLOID
a bimonthly poetry workshop
for your communicative (physical, poetical, or personal) expansion (2018)
Guided by the editors, poets & community of TABLOID Press, SOCIOPOETIK is an open call for writers, artists, poets, or anyone interested in expanding their literary, linguistic, social, performative, and/or written experience + practice of poetry. Our interest is in creating an environment that encourages positivity and experimentation, to rework our ideas of poetry as a literary art, and to invite artists to share and perform their work together.
All sessions will meet at The Workshop.
Sessions will be conducted in English *until further notice*
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In SOCIOPOETIK, we consider language as a material + poetry as a potentially ’sculptural‘ or ‚architectural‘ process. Includes: practicing listening without understanding, playing with misunderstanding, criticism practice, a judgment free approach to poetry, prompts, games, take-home packet of poetry & visuals for your personal experience.
*Communication & Expansion*
**TO RESERVE A SEAT, please RSVP by email to
tabloidpublications@gmail.com w/ the subject line SOCIOPOETIK
and your name. If you’d like to be included in the peer-workshop, please attach a poem (*by you*) that you would like feedback on.
***DROP INS WELCOME. Don’t feel pressured to bring anything except yourself!
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Price: 5-10€
One 2 hour session, includes tea, prompts, readings, in-workshop writing & editing attention
* Class fee will be collected at the end of the session
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SOCIOPOETIK is an ongoing, bi-monthly /poetry workshop/ for the expansion of your ‚poetic‘ practices.
TABLOID Press is a textual platform initiated in 2014 in Berlin. Its activities encompass book design, documentation, and poetry workshops, in addition to its role as a press for art and poetry publications. TABLOID is intended to stimulate and integrate poetic environments within social communities.
(tabloidpublications.bigcartel.com)
The Workshop is a space for communal, open source, autodidactic learning for those curious in interdisciplinary and experimental art forms, music and writing as well as an exhibition space and gallery for ongoing shows, talks and public performances.
workshop-on-forster.de 