Poets and Popcorn: A Hybrid Workshop with Brennan DeFrisco

Poets and Popcorn is a creative writing workshop, open mic, and film screening community event hosted by Brennan DeFrisco at Alberta Abbey. Open to all ages, poets and writers engage in a 1-hour cross-genre / poetry writing workshop in conversation with the themes, subjects, and ideas of the selected film. A 45-minute community open mic follows, during which, attendees are invited to share new creative work and build literary community with each other. A free admission community film screening concludes the event. Workshop participants are encouraged to engage with the film as an ekphratic inspiration to continue their workshop drafts at a future date.

Each stage of the event is donation-based, pay what you can, no one turned away for lack of funds.

Brennan DeFrisco is a poet, teaching artist, editor & program coordinator living in Portland, Oregon by way of the San Francisco Bay Area. He’s been a National Poetry Slam finalist, a Pushcart Prize nominee, 2017 Grand Slam Champion of the Oakland Poetry Slam, & a county arts coordinator for California Poets in the Schools, Poetry Out Loud, and the San Francisco Arts Commission. He’s the author of A Heart With No Scars, published by Nomadic Press & has served as poetry editor on the mastheads of Lunch Ticket, Caesura & Meow Meow Pow Pow. Brennan facilitates creative writing and performance workshops, serving K-12 classrooms, incarcerated youth, adults, seniors, and various arts education programs. His work has been published in Red Wheelbarrow, Words Dance, Drunk in a Midnight Choir, Collective Unrest, & elsewhere. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles.