Sara Dovre Wudali is an award-winning writer, editor, and arts educator living in Saint Paul. She is a founding member of the poetry collective The Poetry Bus, which tours across Minnesota, bringing poetry into everyday spaces. She is a mentor with the Minnesota Prison Writers Workshop and the poet-in-residence at Café Marguerite. Sara believes that artful use of language has a place in everyone’s daily life.
Dovre Wudali is the co-author of the poetry collection, The Sweet, and co-editor of the poetry and essay collection, All You Need is One Avocado. Her poems and essays have been published widely in literary journals and anthologies. She was a Poetry Fellow in the Loft Mentor Series, and her work has received support from the Minnesota State Arts Board and the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council. Dovre Wudali grew up on a farm in southwest Minnesota, where the wind blows through the cottonwoods and box elder bugs rule.
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Teaching Artist Statement
This is not a small voice
you hear this is a large
voice coming out . . .
—Sonia Sanchez, “This Is Not a Small Voice”
My goal as a teaching artist is to foster creativity and language play, creating an environment that welcomes all students to express themselves. I believe that creative writing belongs in our daily lives—that it helps us communicate and understand our emotions and motivations, that it helps us focus on precious small moments in a world that can get overwhelming.
I teach the students to experiment, to take leaps of imagination, and to embrace happy language accidents as the place where art can be found. I teach techniques of rhythm, repetition, and other points of craft while at the same time encouraging flexibility and creativity by concentrating on the process rather than the final product. There is no right or perfect poem. There are instead steps on the journey of self-expression.
