Event
Camp Lawless
Instructor: Amy Lawless
This poetry summer camp/workshop takes place at Bowery Poetry Club on the following Sundays from 12PM-2PM
June 3, June 10, June 17, June 24, July 1, July 15, July 22, July 29, August 5, August 12, August 19
At Camp Lawless, your primary goal is to develop new poems: a quantity of your own original writing. And like any Summer Camp, you will emerge as a somewhat unrecognizable but more experienced form of yourself. Our generative format will allow you to develop your voices, write voluminously, journal (yes, you may write home!), and scare yourself. This class will be playful, harness the fun of summer sun and Sundays, but it will also be hard work! We will study non-traditional forms, collaboration, ekphrastic writing, elegy, using the self, hybrid, anti-poems, found, nature, formal, conceptual, dreams, the internet, and more. Class time will be spent on active writing, workshops, experiencing, listening to and responding to visitors, a little editing, and you will also practice performing your new work! We will be visited by amazing working poets (TBA), read poetry, words, and letters from the past and present. And since its SUMMER, we will take a writing excursion to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as well as to the sidewalks, parks, and even the New York City Poetry Festival for inspiration and writing.
We will feel the summer heat, eat pizza, eat ice cream and write hungrily, constantly, responsibly, and recklessly. The summer will end with a capstone project: a chapbook manuscript! If you're doing it right, youll cry tears of joy and tears of wild emotion: either way changed and renewed!
Every week we will read cutting-edge, crazy, and curious poetry, words, and letters from the past, present, and the future like John Keats, Vincent Van Gogh, Gaston Bachelard, John Wieners, Mary Ruefle, Sommer Browning, Chris Kraus, Anne Boyer, and more.
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LocationBowery Poetry Club (View)
308 Bowery
New York, NY 10012
United States
Categories
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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Q&A
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Hi,
I'm really interested in this course but I would have to miss the first date. Could someone reach out to me to discuss what my options are? Not worried about the price, more about the experience :)
Thanks! |
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This will not be a problem at all. Will you still be able to register online, prior to the first class? (The only issue is that the system stops the ticket sales automatically when the first class begins. But it will not be an issue otherwise. And even if you cannot register before first class (which you will miss), just let us know and we can work something out). I hope you are able to join us! |
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How 'good'/experienced a poet do you need to be? |
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The workshop is open to poets of all levels of experience--everyone is welcome! |
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