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Event
The Prose Poem, Between the Gap// "Interstellar" with Shira Dentz
This workshop will take place on both of these days:
Saturday, March 9 (1:30 pm-5:00 pm)
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Sunday, March 10 (10am - 1 pm)
In this two-day workshop, we'll explore the elusive form of the prose poem through reading, discussion, writing experiments, and workshop. Well read and discuss prose poems by poets including Francis Ponge, Rosmarie Waldrop, Claudia Rankine, and Charles Simic, and unconventional writing prompts will follow each of our discussions. Each hour well enter a different portal to this liminal space, shifting our starting point from objects to metaphysics to social autobiography to the surreal. The question, What is a prose poem?, has been notoriously difficult to answer, and we will embark on an open-ended journey. Since form can be viewed in relation to its content, the prose poem is perhaps a most uncontained form (despite its formal regularity on the page). Together, we will plumb this textual and textural space, the nascent matter in your own generative imagination. As prelude to each days class, we will do warm-up sensory/language experiments to flex your bodily sense-perceptions, language, and imagination, and we will conclude on the second day with an extended workhop that will give everyone the chance to refine at least one prose poem they drafted through this workshop.
Shira Dentz is the author of five full-length books, black seeds on a white dish (Shearsman), door of thin skins (CavanKerry), how do i net thee (Salmon Poetry), the sun a blazing zero (forthcoming, Lavender Ink/Diálogos), and Sisyphusina (forthcoming, PANK), and two chapbooks, Leaf Weather (Shearsman), and FLOUNDERS (Essay Press). Her writing appears widely in journals including POETRY, The American Poetry Review, The Iowa Review, New American Writing, Brooklyn Rail, and Western Humanities Review, and featured in The Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day series, NPR, Poetry Daily, and Verse Daily. She is the recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize, the Poetry Society of Americas Lyric Poem and Cecil Hemley Memorial Awards, Electronic Poetry Reviews Discovery Award, and Painted Bride Quarterlys Poetry Prize. A graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop, she has a Ph.D. in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Utah, and is currently Special Features Editor at Tarpaulin Sky and teaches creative writing at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Upstate New York. More about her writing can be found at shiradentz.com.
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LocationThe Word Barn (View)
66 Newfields Road
Exeter, NH 03833
United States
Categories
| Minimum Age: 18 |
| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
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