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DISMANTLING THE TRADITION: ON FORM & POWER – LIVE Porsha Olayiwola
Poetry
July 12-16, 2021
Open to All Levels
Tiered Tuition
$0-$0
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About the Offering

Infrastructures hold tradition in place. Tradition creates social norms that last centuries. Infrastructure, both tangible and unseen, establish a system by which the norms never alter. This is true in history, social hierarchy, and literature. Classical form, in poetry, can operate as an oppressive infrastructure dictating how and what we write. This course will focus on using form poetry to debunk larger societal hierarchies. Inspired by Jericho Brown’s poetry collection, The Tradition, participants will engage classical form and create a ‘new’ form of poetry as they envision a future they’ve named. This course will be both generative and workshop-based.

LIVE TIME: 12pm-2pm EST.

About the Instructor/Moderator

Porsha Olayiwola is an individual world poetry slam champion and the author of the collection i shimmer sometimes, too. Olayiwola is the current Poet Laureate for the City of Boston. She is a 2020 Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate Fellow. Olayiwola is the Assistant Professor of Poetry at Emerson College. Her work can be found in or forthcoming with Triquarterly Magazine, Black Warrior Review, The Boston Globe, Essence Magazine, Redivider, Split This Rock, The NBA, The Academy of American Poets, Netflix, The Rumpus, Wilderness Press, The Museum of Fine Arts, and elsewhere.

 

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