In this workshop, we will read, discuss, and write poetry, nonfiction, fiction, and other creative work that bends/blends conventions in compelling ways as we experiment with the generative and constrictive nature of literary genres. As Anne Carson, a master of the multigenre text, tells us in a New York Times interview: “We’re talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense; every attempt means starting over with language; starting over with accuracy.” Together we will practice the art of translating—a story, a feeling, an idea, “the mush of the unconscious”—from genre to genre in an attempt to define our experiences more accurately and more complexly. Each week we will draw from mentor texts and craft essays to respond to one another’s work and write/rewrite our own. This workshop is for novice and experienced writers ready and willing to try on some new rules or break some old ones.
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Writers Workshops
MULTIGENRE 2016-105
About the instructor
SARA COOPER’S writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Mid-American Review, BorderSenses, Puerto del Sol, HYSTERIA: A Feminist Anthology of Poetry and Microfiction, and Mutabilis Press’s Untameable City. A chapbook of poems, Mis—, was published in 2014 by Grandma Moses Press. She received her MFA in poetry at New Mexico State University and is now pursuing a PhD at the University of Houston.
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