The Looking Glass Rock Writers' Conference convenes poets for an intensive workshop led by Evie Shockley, whose title '(Not) Narrative Poetry' signals a rigorous inquiry into the assumptions that govern how poems tell, show, or resist story. The workshop will interrogate what 'narrative poetry' means, why some poets gravitate toward story while others lean into observation, ideas, and language without a fixed lyric-I. It asks what opens up when recounting events gives way to deep attention to the tangible or sensed world, to critical interrogation of 'the way things are,' or to investigations of how words, syntax, and structures of thought shape perception. For poets whose work remains narrative, the workshop considers what happens when linearity, motivation, and epiphany are set aside in favor of stories that require the reader to move through space and time without compass or clock.