Dialogues in Action: Writing from the Self

 A Craft Talk and Performance with Idris Goodwin 

How do writers get inspiration? Curious about how to take your small idea and turn it into something larger? Where do you even start?

Join us for a craft talk and performance with award-winning playwright, break beat poet, author and associate professor of dramatic writing Idris Goodwin. Goodwin will share the process of creating the spoken word poem “Say My Name” as well as his forthcoming novel, “King of The Neuro Verse.” Guest artists and performers Christopher Lane, Jessinia Ingram and Megan Holcomb will join the stage to share an excerpt of “Tar and Feather,” a new work-in-progress play by Goodwin.

“The most powerful art often stems from personal experiences and everyday moments. Using examples from my own works as a spoken word performer, author and playwright, I encourage creators to draw inspiration from the personal details, mundane elements, questions and curiosities that can be elevated into rich, impactful artistic expressions.”

About “Tar and Feather”: A barrier-breaking young arts executive is hired to help revive a failing legacy museum. Caught between two polarizing mentors and competing ideologies, he must navigate questions of identity, power, and reinvention in an institution both steeped in history and struggling to evolve. Loosely inspired by Goodwin’s own experience running a century-old museum in the American West, the piece blends poetic language and contemporary urgency in a stripped-down, voice-forward form.

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