Poetry
June 14-18, 2021
Open to All Levels
Tiered Tuition
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The word hybrid comes from the Latin hybrida which means mongrel, a creature of mixed breed. The tradition of poetry is widening, drawing from many art forms, blending and fusing to create contemporary cross-pollinated forms. In this class we will explore the many ways in which poetry is increasingly a hybrid beast, as innovative and exciting projects are envisioned across the genres. We will discuss the process by which poets collaborate with visual artists and filmmakers and we will practice the poem-as-collage, ekphrastic poem, pecha kucha, erasure, the zuihitsu, and the many formal experiments that make the current environment of poetry so eclectic. Class work will be comprised of student writing and critique, linguistic adventure, wild meanderings, manifestos in order to understand future possibilities for one’s own poems.
Please submit 2 poems (not to exceed 4 pages total) prior to June 1.
LIVE TIME: 12pm-2pm EST.
Tina Chang is the author of Hybrida (W.W. Norton, 2019) Of Gods & Strangers, and Half-Lit Houses (Four Way Books) . She is also co-editor of the W.W. Norton anthology Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond. Her poems have been published in journals such as American Poet, McSweeney’s, The New York Times, and Ploughshares. She has received awards from the Academy of American Poets, the New York Foundation for the Arts, Poets & Writers, among others. She is Professor of English and the Director of Creative Writing at Binghamton University.
