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Poetic Prose and the Prose Poem with Barbara Henning
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Apr 23, 2016 | 11:30 am - 2:00 pm
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“Which of us, in his ambitious moments, has not dreamed of the miracle of poetic prose?” (Baudelaire) The prose poem is a border genre particularly suited to tracing/guiding consciousness. This workshop will explore poetic possibilities while writing five works in prose and also reading poetry and poetics from some 20th century poetic movements, such as Imagism, Surrealism, Objectivism, Projective Verse and the New York School.
Reading by workshop participants Saturday May 28
Barbara Henning is the author of three novels and eleven collections of poetry, most recently A Day Like Today (2015). She is also the editor of Looking Up Harryette Mullen: Interviews on Sleeping with the Dictionary and Other Works (2011) and The Collected Prose of Bobbie Louise Hawkins (2012). She lives in New York City and currently teaches for writers.com, the Poetry Project, and Long Island University.
Which of us, in his ambitious moments, has not dreamed of the miracle of a poetic prose? (Baudelaire) The prose poem is a border genre particularly suited to tracing/guiding consciousness. This workshop will explore poetic possibilities while writing five works in prose and also reading poetry and poetics from some 20th century poetic movements—Imagism, Surrealism, Objectivism, Projective Verse and the New York School.
Barbara Henning is the author of three novels and seven books of poetry. Her most recent books are Cities & Memory, Thirty Miles from Rosebud and Looking Up Harryette Mullen. She teaches at Naropa University and Long Island University in Brooklyn.