About the Workshop
The Art of Filling the Blank Page is a small poetry kitchen where things are allowed to be messy. You’ll write through prompts that play with sound, imagery, form, and voice. We’ll also spend time rethinking failure, not as something to avoid, but something you can actually use. A line that doesn’t work, a draft that feels off, all of it becomes material.
That’s kind of the point. By the end, the page isn’t blank anymore. It’s something you’ve already started shaping, in your own way.
Key Takeaways
– Ability to generate poem drafts using structured prompts
– Develop a working relationship with the blank page and the unsaid.
– Greater control over rhythm, repetition, and tone
– Techniques to move through creative blocks and keep writing
About the Facilitator
Shriram Sivaramakrishnan is an alumnus of the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry’s MA in Poetry, and Boise State University’s MFA program. His poems, anti-poems and translations, including those published under different heteronyms, have appeared in Asymptote, MPT, The Stinging Fly, DIAGRAM, ONLY Poems, among others. His debut pamphlet, Let the Light In, was published by Ghost City Press in June 2018. He tweets at @shriiram.
Some publications:
https://www.poetrynw.org/shriram-sivaramakrishnan-five-anti-poems/
https://mantis.stanford.edu/shirram-sivaramakrishnan
https://threadcountmag.com/issue-17-fall-21/shriram-sivaramakrishnan/
https://www.asymptotejournal.com/poetry/atmanam-five-poems
https://bombaylitmag.com/contribution/summa-iru-issue-57/
https://www.action-spectacle.com/winter-2026-part-ii/iru
https://www.onlypoemsdaily.com/p/how-to-chew-a-flower-summa-iru
https://www.zeroreaders.com/2024/03/in-a-dark-dark-sky-that-may-yet-a-horse-is-the-yet-summa-iru/
Details of the workshop
Date: May 9th
Time: 11 AM – 1 PM
Fees: INR 1500
Platform: Zoom