Using writing prompts as inspiration, we will illustrate simple poetic phrases with French Stencil (pochoir) techniques, pencils, and rubber stamps. No experience is needed either as a writer or as an artist. Materials will be supplied.

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Anne Markham Bailey (she/hers) is an American poet and author. She teaches creative writing and book arts to incarcerated and post-incarcerated people in the Alabama Prison Arts and Education Project with Auburn University. Anne is also a teaching artist with UAB Arts in Medicine. Anne is a founding member of the Quorum Poets, a workshopping collective of Birmingham poets that hosts The Quorum Poet Present, a monthly reading, featuring a guest poet and Open Mic. She edited and contributed to The Hemlock Poems(2023). The poems from the chapbook were featured in Wild Alabama’s Saving Alabama’s Hemlocks art show. Her first book of poems, Cold Stone, White Lily(2011) was published in the UK by the Friends of Julian imprint at the shrine of Julian of Norwich. In addition to her chapbook Nancy Marguerite’s Chopin(2018), Anne wrote and independently published The Daring Egg (2020), a picture book for children. Her most recent book is The Practice of Being (2022), a pithy creative awareness practice guidebook. Anne is completing a new manuscript of poems, The Conjugation of Winter. Anne is a certified Forest Bathing/Nature Therapy Guide, passionate about connecting creative writing and deep listening with applied mindfulness practices in more-than-human world. She holds a B.A. in East Asian Studies from Columbia University, an M.F.A. in Book Arts from the University of Alabama, and an M.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. To learn more and to check out her books, projects, and programs: https://www.annemarkhambailey.com/ @annemarkhambailey