Happy birthday to Winter Tangerine! Come on out to the Poets House for birthday cake, fantastic poetry, and wine!

Featuring Hanif Abdurraqib, Tariq Luthun, Safia Elhillo, Greta Wilensky, Franny Choi, Elana Bell, Mahogany Browne, and Adam Falkner!

$9 cover to offset rental costs.

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Title comes from Franny Choi's incredible poem, Frame, first published in WT's Spotlight feature, Fragments of Persephone: http://www.wintertangerine.com/frame-choi/

In this one-day intensive, we'll look at some of literary history's great epistolary writing-- from Heloise & Abelard to Chris Kraus, passing by way of Madame de Stael, Proust, Keats, Lou Andreas-Salome, Rilke, Kafka, Amiri Baraka, Ted Berrigan, & more-- and then we will write letters, put them in envelopes, and yes: drop them in the mail. I don't know about you, but there are people I've been writing to in my mind for years-- some of them are kin and some are movie stars.

“Around her, this house, which saw joy and torment no more or less than most, trembles like the eggs her Baba painted at Easter, blowing out the yolk and watery white from a pinhole, the hollowed shell cupped in her palm waiting to be filled with color.”

This weeklong intensive writing program provides an exceptional opportunity for gifted young poets to develop their voice and hone their craft. Working with their peers, and with the guidance of a master teaching poet and guest poets, students will gain exposure to a range of poetic forms and various styles, and create and present original works. All participating students will receive lunch and transportation stipends for the duration of the program. Lead by poet and playwright Dave Johnson.