Collage Poetry for Riso with Mita Mahato

Collage is a form that depends upon rupture and reimagining—cutting and layering text in order to question the limits of how our realities are represented. Riso also operates using layers, reproducing content in ways that ask us to bend our sense of what a “copy” should do. In this 5-hour workshop, we will bring these two modes together, experimenting with collage technique to create erasure and found poems for the riso that will frustrate, surprise, corrupt, and delight. The workshop involves both collaborative and independent work that will emphasize slow wonder and experimentation. All experience levels welcome. 

We have a sliding scale structure ($90 - $150) and encourage you to pay what you can. To use our sliding scale fee, enter one of the following codes at check out:

CP90
CP105
CP125

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR

Mita Mahato is a collage, cut paper, and comix artist, poet, and educator. Her new book, Arctic Play, is forthcoming this October from The 3rd Thing, and her poetry comix have appeared in Ecotone, Iterant, Shenandoah, Coast/NoCoast, ANMLY, and Drunken Boat, as well as in the collection In Between, published by Pleiades.