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Poetry Workshop with Elaine Sexton

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Program Type:

Workshop

Age Group:

Adults
This event is part of a series. Visit the first event in the series to register.
Registration for this event will close on March 5, 2025 @ 10:00am.

Program Description

Event Details

In this two-part workshop you will learn how to mine your own lines for what’s fresh, and try out a few ways of looking at words that will urge them to sing! In class (and at home) we will borrow to build poems of our own from the strategies contemporary masters of poetry employ. Then we'll share the work with feedback in class. You will be offered basic (& optional) templates to pour your ideas into, so writers of every level will find a way to begin. Every poem is a new start.

Presenter

Elaine Sexton’s latest collection of poems is Drive (Grid Books, 2022), she has numerous other publications. Elaine teaches text and image and poetry at Sarah Lawrence College and has taught at NYU and City College (CUNY). She is regularly invited to teach poetry, bookmaking, and art writing at programs and centers in the U.S. and abroad. She is a member of the National Book Critics Circle and a new collection forthcoming in May.

Sponsorship

This event is funded in part by Poets & Writers with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

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Registration Info

Attendance at both sessions is required. Beginners are welcome. 

Space is limited, please register.