“Thinking too much usually ruins a good time,” Clint Frakes said as he folded a piece of paper in preparation of a round of exquisite corpse.

For those unfamiliar with the macabre-sounding term, exquisite corpse refers to a surrealist method of constructing a poem by passing a folded piece of paper from person to person, each individual adding a line unaware of the line produced by the preceding individual.

Frakes had come to Sedona Heritage Museum on Tuesday, March 10, as part of the Sedona Art Museum’s Max Ernst & Dorothea Tanning: When Surrealism Met the Red Rocks weeklong event, conducting a workshop on creating poetry in the surrealist tradition.

In addition to the exquisite corpse exercise, he promised that each participant would walk away with four new poems.

To read the full story, see the Friday, March 13, edition of the Sedona Red Rock News.