A GENERATIVE AND CONTEMPLATIVE JOURNEY
Rilke tells us we must change our lives but what the heck does that mean? How can our poems help us meet the great mystery of what comes next? We will look at and write poems that engage, welcome, and resist moments of great change. In a mix of reading and writing, the workshop will function like a lab. Experimenting with form and structure, we’ll work to generate enough poems and exercises to take you through at least a season of adventure and possibility. We will think about how poetry, our own and others, might help us find our way in seemingly inexplicable times. We will workshop at least one poem you write during the week and talk deeply about how to make variations of poems that can lead both to deep revision and entirely new poems.
GABRIELLE CALVOCORESSI is the author of The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart and Apocalyptic Swing, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She is an Editor at Large at Los Angeles Review of Books and co-curates the multi-media maker’s space Voluble. The recipient of awards and fellowships from the Lannan Foundation, Civitella di Ranieri, The Paris Review, and the Rona Jaffe Foundation, among others, Calvocoressi’s poems have appeared in POETRY, The New York Times, Boston Review and other magazines and journals. She sits on the poetry boards of The Rumpus and From the Fishouse. She is working on memoir about suicide entitled, The Year I Didn’t Kill Myself. Her third book, Rocket Fantastic, was released September 2017.
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