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SUMMARY:Poetry/In-Person 2627-206
DESCRIPTION:This is an in-person workshop that takes place at Inprint House. \n \nLanguage as Material: A Generative Workshop \nThe painter Edgar Degas once lived for weeks as a vexed poet. Despite his best attempts\, he could not shake the flatness in his verse. And so\, desperately inspired\, he sought the advice of a friend: the famed writer Stéphane Mallarmé. “Dear Stéphane\,” Degas began\, “I cannot understand how I can have such great ideas—and yet I write such horrid poems!” \nMallarmé quipped\, “Dear Degas\, poems are made of words\, not ideas.” \nIn this generative workshop\, we will take Mallarmé’s quip seriously as we consider language as poetic material. We will begin by looking at experimental poems by writers such as Harryette Mullen\, Reginald Dwayne Betts\, Charles Olson\, Douglas Kearny\, Robert Smithson\, Ted Berrigan\, and others\, alongside some paintings\, drawings\, and collages by visual artists such as Hans Hofmann\, Ray Johnson\, and Josef and Anni Albers. \nAfter discussing the effects of collage\, erasure\, and intertextuality\, we will apply these crosspollinated-techniques to our own in-class writing. Students can expect to leave with a foundational understanding of experimental poetics and numerous poems of their own. Oh\, and students will learn some formatting tricks on Microsoft Word\, too. \n
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