An 8-Week Online Poetry Workshop
Wednesdays, July 1 - August 19, 6 - 9 PM
How do we turn the raw material of private experience into something that speaks beyond ourselves? How can a poem hold both the personal and the communal, the solitary voice and the shared world?
In this course, we will experiment with techniques to explore the depth of our individual subjectivity, examining ourselves without losing sight of the outside world that grounds and connects us. We will consider the power of metaphor, allusion, and connotation as vehicles for expressing deeply held emotions. Funneling our most urgent concerns through the imaginative landscapes of pop culture, literature, nature, and history. By engaging in a variety of generative experiments, we’ll embrace the use of metaphorical masks and mirrors, inviting different voices—different “selves”—into our work.
We will seek inspiration from acclaimed poets such as Natasha Tretheway, Sylvia Plath, Ross Gay, Terrance Hayes, Jaswinder Bolina, Patricia Smith, Louise Glück, Elizabeth Bishop, francine j. harris, Mary Ruefle, Michael Dumanis, and David Berman.
Through experiments in both conventional and invented forms—such as the sonnet, villanelle, abecedarian, and pecha kucha—we’ll push our self-referential “I” to be a flexible, shape-shifting “eye” capable of looking all around us.
My poem "Surprise Visit" was published in the Cincinnati Review and a poem titled "Confessional" was recently published in Tri-Quarterly.
$410 Members/$545 Nonmembers
Jalen Eutsey is a writer from Miami, Florida. A recipient of the Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, his poems have appeared in Best New Poets, The Yale Review, Poetry Northwest, and The Hopkins Review. His chapbook, Bubble Gum Stadium, was published by Button Poetry.
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SCHOLARSHIP
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