Class participants work with forms (sentence, found text, the list), themes (place, history, letter writing) and the making of images that sit near the texts.
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February 24, 2011
Class participants work with forms (sentence, found text, the list), themes (place, history, letter writing) and the making of images that sit near the texts.
February 22, 2011
This hands-on workshop focuses on in-class writing rather than critiquing peer work. A specific assignment or process is explained, and then students get down to work.
This hands-on workshop focuses on in-class writing rather than critiquing peer work. A specific assignment or process is explained, and then students get down to work.
February 23, 2011
In this workshop, students learn to see every good poem as a toolbox for the creation of a new poem.
In this workshop, students learn to see every good poem as a toolbox for the creation of a new poem.
March 17, 2011
A World War I medical officer and brilliant poet whose work attracted the patronage of Wittgenstein, Georg Trakl (1887–1914) and his sinister, imagistic poems are taken up by three
March 18, 2011
Esteemed poet and translator Pierre Joris discusses Paul Celan (1920-1970), the German-speaking Jewish poet whose writings transformed post-World War II poetry.
March 19, 2011
Carin Berger shares the poetic story of a bluebird and a brown rabbit whose friendship survives migration and winter.
Duke University professor Bruce Lawrence offers an introduction to the poetic style and aural beauty of the Qur’an and discusses the challenge of translating archaic Arabi
