Getting Up and Out of the (Sometimes) Suffocating "I" (Advanced Poetry)

Getting Up and Out of the (Sometimes) Suffocating “I” (Advanced Poetry)

$400.00

6 Wednesday Evenings
Writing Poetry w/ Erin Belieu
Mar 27 –  May 1  // 6 to 8:30 pm

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Grackle art by Nick Wroblewski

First person speakers often come naturally to us as poets, but sometimes we want our poems–both in structure and content—to move beyond the first person focus and approach. Character, persona, mask, speaker as camera, or simply a more sublimated version of the “I”—all of these can free us from our poems’ sometimes suffocating self regard, allowing for a new freshness in the thoughts, feelings, points-of-view, and images we bring to the work.
In this class, we’ll begin every session with a generative writing prompt from a point of view seemingly other than our own. Every person will workshop thier poem every other week, after the first class. We will also look at various poems weekly that demonstrate how we can usefully free ourselves from the writer as speaker when occasion calls for it.
Please send a copy of poem you’ve written to miah@gracklandgrackle.com in the week before class.

 

Erin Belieu was born in Nebraska and educated at The Ohio State University and Boston University. She is the author of Infanta, chosen by Hayden Carruth for the National Poetry Series; One Above & One Below, winner of the Midland Authors Prize and Ohioana Poetry Award; Black Box, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist; Slant Six, named one of the ten best books of 2014 by The New York Times; and Come Hither Honeycomb (2020), all published by Copper Canyon Press. Her poems have appeared in places such as The Best American Poetry, The New Yorker, Poetry, The New York Times, The Atlantic, AGNI, Tin House, and The American Poetry Review. Belieu also co-founded VIDA: Women in Literary Arts with poet Cate Marvin. She currently teaches in the University of Houston’s MFA/PhD Creative Writing Program, as well as for the Lesley University low-residency MFA in Cambridge, MA.

 

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