Welcome to the Poetry Kitchen, a home for poets and readers who are searching for thoughtful conversation and deep writing time. Every year I offer a variety of generative, revision, and manuscript classes aimed at developing participants' confidence and independence within a supportive community of fellow makers. Classes are affordable and are open to all.
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Syntax as Spark: Poets Learning from Prose
One of the peculiarities of my trajectory as a poet is the extent to which I’ve been influenced by prose writers, especially the great psychological novelists of the nineteenth century and the high modernists of the twentieth.
I’ve pondered this for years, and what I’m beginning to see is that, in addition to the allure of character and drama, these books have been lessons in the power and individuality of a writer’s syntax.
How do novelists use syntax to explore sound, story, and emotion? And how can poets learn from them as we experiment with new poems?
In this two-day class we’ll explore excerpts from the works of George Eliot, Henry James, Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Bowen, and Henry Green and put them into conversation with poems by Yusef Komunyakaa, Hayden Carruth, Natalie Diaz, and others in order to consider the intersections of sound, sentence, line, and emotional resonance. Then we’ll use these conversations to jumpstart our own new drafts.
Date: July 25 and 26, each day 10 a.m.–2 p.m. ET, on Zoom
Cost: $150
Class size is limited to 12 participants.
Inservice teachers will receive 8 hours of professional development credit.
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