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Master Class with Dorianne Laux: The Discretion of the Line
Feb 23, 2019 | 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm
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Saturday & Sunday
Like the cell, the line is the basic structural, functional, and biological unit of all poems. Or as Robert Hass says in A Little Book on Form, “A single line is a naked thing. It is both light and heavy. It is the basic unit of all lyric forms.” Robert Lowell said “It is much easier to write a good poem than a good line.” And as Galway Kinnell has said more simply, “A line should have something in it.” This workshop looks at poetry by Eliot, Herrick, Levertov, Sappho, and Emanuel.
Class Dates:
Saturday, February 23, 2 – 6pm
Sunday, February 24, 12 – 4pm
Dorianne Laux is the author of six poetry books and teaches in the Program in Creative Writing at North Carolina State University. She is also a founding faculty member of Pacific University’s Low-Residency MFA Program. Her book Only As the Day Is Long: New and Selected Poems will be released this year.
Applications are closed!
Details
- Date:
- Feb 23, 2019
- Time:
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2:00 pm - 6:00 pm
- Event Category:
- Weekend Master Class
Venue
- Stanley Kunitz Conference Room, Poets House
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10 River Terrace
New York, NY 10282 United States + Google Map - Phone
- 212-431-8040