24PearlStreet Workshops and Events

Daisy Fried WRITING POEMS THAT DON’T FIT Poetry October 4 to October 29, 2021 Number of Participants: 15 Price: $650.00 Format: 4 Week Asynchronous Workshop

ASYNCHRONOUS 

Does it sometimes feel to you that your poems don’t quite fit in? Are you excited about what you are writing but feel you’re out of step with the poetry moment? Good! This workshop recognizes that the best poetry often doesn’t fit into any easily characterizable mode or period style, but makes commitments as it needs to and uses what techniques it needs as it finds them. You’ll generate new poems and revise your work for supportive, frank, detailed critique by the instructor and group, and you’ll read and discuss relevant work by diverse modern and contemporary poets, with the goal of failing, wonderfully, to fit in. In place of traditional formal prompts, we’ll consider—in magpie spirit, and in hopes of embracing confusion as a way to work towards clarity—strategic, formal and thematic questions designed to provide focus but leave most choices up to you. And while we will likely make plenty of suggestions for specific edits as you revise, the most important revision questions will be: “Who are you? Who do you want to be? What do you want your poems to be?” Poets at any level who find these questions engaging are welcome.

Biography

Daisy Fried’s book of “versions and aversions” of the 19th C. French poet, Charles Baudelaire, will be published by Flood Editions in 2022. She is also the author of three other books of poems: My Brother is Getting Arrested Again, Women’s Poetry: Poems and Advice, and She Didn’t Mean to Do It. A past Guggenheim, Hodder and Pew Fellow in poetry, she is a member of the faculty of the Warren Wilson MFA Program for writers, and at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, where she lives.
 

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