The Lived Experience: a Poetry Workshop It’s a sentiment echoed in writing courses across the world: “Write what you know.” Write what you know, and the writing will be honest, compelling, and reach the right audience. It’s oversaid and may feel limiting to some, but it works and you’ll never know unless you try. The next great American novel — or poem — might be sitting inside your brain waiting to escape onto paper. At this poetry workshop hosted by Spark Central, local poet Stephen Pitters will tell his story of living alone on an all-white campus i...