WRITING THROUGH THE SENSES: Writing Workshop

This generative workshop explores unexpected ways to use your senses to write poetry.

In our time together, we will use touch, sound, taste, vision, and smell to tune very deeply into our moment-to-moment experience. By doing so, we will observe how sensory information can be an alternative point of departure for exploring our lived experience, feelings, and ideas about the world. The workshop will include different activities that include walking, exploring spaces, and moving so please dress comfortably.

Writing Through the Five Senses, a 2026 Triangle Poetry Festival experience, provides an accessible point for poets of all level of experience to write something new that they feel strongly about. Be sure to check out the full weekend of other great programming at Triangle Poetry Festival, celebrating the artists, the heart-leading advocates, and the movers in the margins. 

Space is limited. Get tickets to Triangle Poetry Festival now.

About the Facilitators:

Laura Jaramillo – Co-director at Paradiso Poetry

Laura Jaramillo is a poet and critic. Born to Colombian parents in Queens, New York, she now lives in Durham, North Carolina. Her books include Material Girl (subpress, 2012) and Making Water (Futurepoem, 2022). She holds a PhD in critical theory from Duke University. She co-runs the North Carolina-based reading and performance series Paradiso. She is a freelance developmental editor and offers writing and theory workshops that reflect her interest in experimental education models for adults.

Triangle Poetry Festival is a Third Angle Poets Production.

About Third Angle Poets at Boxyard RTP:

Founded in 2024, Third Angle Poets is a collective of seasoned arts organizers from across the Triangle. In partnership with Boxyard RTP, Third Angle creates one-of-a-kind interactive events for poets and changemakers to share their voice, hone their craft, and collaborate for social good – including the quarterly Poets’ Playground series and Triangle Poetry Festival. By showcasing poetry, we seek to foster vulnerability and trust. By catalyzing conversations between artists and activists, we help meet the immediate- and long-term needs of our community—while fueling our souls.

Note: By participating in this event, you consent to the recording of your likeness, image, and/or voice and authorize Boxyard RTP to use photographs, video, and audio recordings containing your likeness, image, and/or voice in any medium for any purpose.

Got questions? Send us an email at hello@boxyardrtp.com.