Poets are frequently influenced by a favorite musician or song. Sometimes it’s Bob Dylan’s lyrics, the aesthetics of the blues, or the emotional sweep of Mahler that we want to carry to the page.
Poets are frequently influenced by a favorite musician or song. Sometimes it’s Bob Dylan’s lyrics, the aesthetics of the blues, or the emotional sweep of Mahler that we want to carry to the page.
From first draft to final draft, strategies are required for seeing the whole poem, both its full potential for content and its most satisfying form.
What does it mean to experiment? To play? To leap into uncertainty? To subvert a sense of form, structure, tone?
What does it mean to experiment? To play? To leap into uncertainty? To subvert a sense of form, structure, tone?
This class will explore the practice of visionary writing.
This class will explore the practice of visionary writing.
Poems are structures: the way words appear on the page—the use of white space, typography, order, disorder. We step into a poem as we would a new building we admire: curious, but from the outside.
Poems are structures: the way words appear on the page—the use of white space, typography, order, disorder. We step into a poem as we would a new building we admire: curious, but from the outside.
A dynamic afternoon seminar with poet and novelist Renée Ashley and memoirist Rosie Schaap.
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