Wondering how to transform those first drafts? Poems are full of images that we create with words. They can be vivid, smoky, pungent, anything we choose, but how do we get it there? In Lightroom, you can turn the contrast up or down, crop, vignette. Learning how to do this with a poetic image allows you more control over what you're doing.This workshop will use these image-editing techniques to sharpen our work: Lightroom-- but make it poetry.

Edythe Rodriguez is a Philly-based poet who studied Africology and creative writing at Temple University. She loves neo-soul, battle rap, and long walks through old poetry journals. She has received fellowships from The Watering Hole, Brooklyn Poets, and Palm Beach Poetry Festival. Her work is a call for aggressive healing and is published in Obsidian, Sonku Literary Magazine, Call and Response Journal and Bayou Magazine. More of her work can be found at www.edytherodriguez.com or on Instagram @edythejai.