24PearlStreet Workshops and Events
LIVE via Zoom: 1pm-3pm (Eastern Time)
“There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion…”
—Francis Bacon, 1597
Brendan Constantine presents a generative workshop on the nature of Beauty, our personal relationships with it and its criteria as proposed by artists, philosophers, and other “beholders.” Sessions will include in-class writing, critique, games, and an examination of the criteria for Beauty across cultures and history. This workshop asks: is Beauty an opinion or an autonomous principle, a living ghost that leads or follows us? Come prepared to write and laugh and discover community.
Biography
Brendan Constantine
is a poet based in Los Angeles. He is the author of five full-length collections, including Dementia, My Darling (2016 Red Hen) and Letters to Guns (2009 Red Hen). His work has appeared in Poetry, The Nation, Best American Poetry, Tin House, Poem-A-Day, and in numerous other journals and anthologies. A popular performer, Brendan Constantine has presented his work to audiences throughout the U.S. and Europe, also appearing on NPR's All Things Considered, TED-ED, numerous podcasts, and YouTube. He currently teaches creative writing at the Windward School and with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Since 2017, he has been developing poetry workshops for writers living with Aphasia and Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI).
