Poet Kathleen Norris describes her collaborations with artist Ed Colker, including from South Dakota, a collection featuring his prints and her poems.
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Literary Partners Program: Playful Procedures—A Poetry Provocation of Bourgeois Normalities
Feb 8, 2020 | 4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoets Liora Mondlak and Don Hogle read back and forth in a mixtape of their poems.
Emotional Historians with Jon Sands
Feb 19, 2020 | 6:00 pm - 8:30 pmIn this generative workshop, students will explore poetry that strikes many notes at once, creating poems as multi-dimensional as their authors.
Third Genre: Between Poetry & Prose with Marwa Helal
Feb 20, 2020 | 6:00 pm - 8:30 pmStudents will explore forms including the lyric essay and hybrid texts, exploring the boundary of poetry and prose and writing their own “third genre” work.
From the Blog
“I am out of place they say” – Now digitized: from South Dakota by Kathleen Norris & Ed Colker
A portfolio of letterpress-printed poems by Kathleen Norris and hand-colored lithographs by Ed Colker make an arresting journey through the plains.
Audio Roundup: Poetry & Science, Favorite Poems, Supernatural Poetry & More
Listen to Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Forrest Gander, Bryan Thao Worra, Linda Addison, Liz Howard, Robert Pinsky, Daniel Halpern, Robert Hass & more!
from South Dakota to the Art of Ed Colker: An Interview with Kathleen Norris
Poet Kathleen Norris describes her collaborations with artist Ed Colker, including from South Dakota, a collection featuring his prints and her poems.
“I am out of place they say” – Now digitized: from South Dakota by Kathleen Norris & Ed Colker
A portfolio of letterpress-printed poems by Kathleen Norris and hand-colored lithographs by Ed Colker make an arresting journey through the plains.
Audio Roundup: Poetry & Science, Favorite Poems, Supernatural Poetry & More
Listen to Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Forrest Gander, Bryan Thao Worra, Linda Addison, Liz Howard, Robert Pinsky, Daniel Halpern, Robert Hass & more!