August 28 @ 7 p.m.
Perrodin Supply Co.

Join the Bee Balm community for our summer reading, where folx take ~4 minutes to share the poetry or prose they’ve been polishing.

Come to share, or come to listen. This is a time to connect warmly with writers in our community.

When we choose to feel, sometimes we find we are in conflict with our bodies, or that our emotions themselves are in conflict. 🪢 This is a poetry class to help you acknowledge and hold your discomfort, whether that’s difficult feelings you are navigating, gender dysphoria, or other duality.

In this somatics-based drafting workshop, we’ll locate what’s alive in our bodies, read poetry by authors who explore complex emotion and body conflict in their work, and hold ourselves in writing. We’ll also have an opportunity to share lines from what we’ve written.

This is a 1-hr online workshop taught by Julia Paganelli Marin. They’re the creator/director of Bee Balm Arkansas.

🎟️ Tickets are on a sliding scale from $20-50. All ticket purchases come with a recording of the class so you can return to this class anytime you’d like.

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INSTRUCTOR BIO:

Julia Paganelli Marin (they/she) is an educator and poet in Northwest Arkansas. They are the creator and instructor of Bee Balm Arkansas, a writing community that centers kindness and attention and engages writers of all levels. Bee Balm centers queer perspectives and modes of being, and is open to everyone. Learn more about Bee Balm at www.beebalmarkansas.com.

Every month on the 13th @ 6:30 p.m.
The Graduate Hotel

Led by community members Cassie Sands and Schuyler Brooks

Don’t miss this great opportunity to help grow in your craft, and help other writers grow too! Old friends and new faces alike are always welcome at Community Revision Night!

Join us for some informal critique on the 13th of each month at 6:30 p.m. at the Graduate Hotel in Fayetteville. As always, this event is FREE and we’d love to see you!

Every month on the 23rd @ 6:30 p.m.
The Graduate Hotel

Led by community members Haylee Shull and Arden Malloy

Need dedicated time to work on your writing? Join us for a monthly Drafting Night—we’ll even bring some prompts to get you started. Bring your notebook or laptop and your good energy on the 23rd of each month at 6:30 p.m. at the Graduate Hotel in Fayetteville.

This is a FREE event for anyone that is part of our community or just curious to see what we’re about!

“To break a rule you have to know the rule. A blunder is not a revolution.” – Ursula K. Le Guin 🖋️

Sometimes forms like sestinas or sonnets can feel restrictive or challenging to write in – but form also has the ability to tune us into the mechanisms that make poetry sing. 🎼 Join us for this special @beebalmarkansas workshop at @nwabookfest to take a closer look at poetic forms. This class is for writers of all skill levels (beginners welcome!), and will be taught by Revision Night co-lead and University of Arkansas MFA student Schuyler Brooks.

❔Why play with form in your poetry? Forms give us ways to focus on a specific element – rhythm, repetition, or rhyme – while holding the tension of content through expectation and tradition. By understanding the way forms work and how they have traditionally been broken, this workshop will help you bring play back into your formal poetic practice, or try it for the first time.

New to writing or form? don’t be shy. 🫣 This workshop is for all skill levels. Bring something to write with (pen and paper or a device!), and let’s slip into form together. 

A packet with rules of various forms, examples, and craft tips will be provided.❤️

🎟️ Tickets are $25 each.

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INSTRUCTOR BIO:

Schuyler Brooks is a MFA student at the University of Arkansas. They are a dedicated poet, a multimedia maker, and a top tier booty shaker. They have been published in Bare Back Magazine, Isele Magazine’s Queer Joy Quarterly, 3Elements Review, and other publications. Schuyler co-leads @beebalmarkansas Revision Night on the thirteenth of every month.

How do we get into ✨our✨ futures, not the ones we were assigned? How do we take our people with us?

Stemming from queer theory, somatic practices, and poetics, this webinar will help participants tap into their own dreams for the queer futures of their families and communities. Self-reflection, visualization, and journaling are key components of this workshop, which will move participants from visioning into taking new steps toward creation. Beginners to both writing and dreaming are welcome. ✍️ ☁️

Sliding scale tickets available at the link in the @beebalmarkansas bio and come with a recording of the webinar.

INSTRUCTOR: Julia Paganelli Marín (she/they) is a bi+ poet, memoirist, and community educator in Arkansas and the founder and director of Bee Balm Arkansas, a writing community active in Arkansas since 2022.

ART: SAINT GEORGE AND THE DRAGON by Rogier van der Weyden.