Poetry
August 2-6, 2021
Open to All Levels
Tiered Tuition
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In The Poet’s Companion, Kim Addonizio and Dorianne Laux argue that images should “produce a bit of magic, a reality so real it is ‘like being alive twice.’” As we know, images are closely linked to memory. As poets, after mining our respective memories, how do we deepen a reader’s experience with the poem via the image? How does one draft a lasting image? This workshop seeks to focus the image at the poem’s center. This workshop will explore the image and its implications. To this end, participants will review poems with images that reverberate and re-imagine their own poems with images that idle.
Please bring poems that you would like to re-imagine.
LIVE TIME: 2pm-4pm EST.
Nicole Sealey
was born in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, and raised in Apopka, Florida. She is the author of The Ferguson Report: An Erasure, winner of the 2024 OCM Bocas Prize for Poetry and an excerpt from which was awarded the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. She is also the author of Ordinary Beast, and The Animal After Whom Other Animals Are Named, winner of the Drinking Gourd Chapbook Prize. With poet John Murillo, she edited the anthology Dear Yusef: Essays, Letters and Poems, for and about Mr. Komunyakaa. Her recent honors include the Princeton Arts and Hodder Fellowships from Princeton University, a Cullman Center Fellowship from the New York Public Library, and a Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome.
