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poet Gregory Pardlo, Poetry NYC, Poetry Workshops

The "I" in "Team": Persona, Dialect and the Lyric First Person

As readers we sometimes assume the “I” in a poem is the same as the poet’s me. The lyric poet may promote this illusion of spontaneous utterance and unmediated feeling. But the poet who believes the speaker in a poem...

April 17, 2013 - 6:00PM to 8:30PM

poet CAConrad, Poetry NYC, Poetry Workshops

Flowers Dreaming the Elevation Allegiance:

CAConrad writes: “(Soma)tic poetry rituals aim our attention at two basic principles: (1)Everything around us has a creative viability with the potential to spur new modes of thought and imaginative...

May 22, 2013 - 7:00PM

poet Anselm Berrigan, Poetry NYC, Poetry Workshops

Listening as Practice

This class will take as given that listening is an inherent component of reading and writing poetry, that listening is a mode of performance (to read a poem to yourself is to perform that poem, however silently), and...

April 18, 2013 - 6:00PM to 8:30PM

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