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Adult Writing Workshop: Leap into Oulipo! Break and Remake the Rules
As writers, we all follow certain rules of punctuation, genre, style, and form. They’re useful. They’re necessary. But what if we broke them? And what if we made new rules—wild, out-of-the-box rules—to see what would happen? In this class, we will dabble in Oulipo, a type of constrained writing that delights in playful and peculiar limits. Also known as the “Workshop of Potential Literature,” Oulipo stretches the mind and fuels the imagination.
We’ll delve into multiple Oulipo-ean forms, including the Perverb (chopping up existing proverbs to make a new ones), the Lipogram (omitting one or more letters when writing), the Snowball (growing a poem by adding a new letter or word to each line), and the N+7 Method (replacing each of a poem’s nouns with the noun found seven entries after the original in a dictionary). If you love language, puzzles, and surprises, you’re a perfect fit for Oulipo!
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