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Poetry Intensive/In-Person 2024-211

Course #Poetry Intensive/In-Person 2024-211
Saturday October 12 1:30 pm–5:30 pm & Sunday, October 13, 1:30 - 5:30 pm
Cost: $180 Instructor: Adele Elise Williams

Where

Inprint House
1520 W Main St
Houston, TX 77006 United States
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This is an in-person workshop that takes place at Inprint House

Poetry and Play: Looking to Experimental Poetry for Lyrical Invigoration

Are you in need of a writing practice jumpstart? Are you bored with your own writing forms and/or content? In this weekend intensive poetry workshop, we will push our lyrical limits in order to shed comfort zones and go-to approaches to poems. Using the avant-garde as our guide, we will play, experiment, and innovate with quick-timed exercises, multimodal activities, collaborations, and more. Poems by writers Jos Charles, Layli Long Soldier, Henry Goldkamp, Hala Alyan, Douglas Kearny, Jennifer Tamayo, Montana Ray, and others will inspire class sessions.

Taking Language Poet Lyn Hejinian’s poetics essay “The Rejection of Closure” as a point of departure, this workshop explores the “open” and playful poem—the poem in which all “elements are maximally excited.” Come join us to learn more about what that could possibly mean! This workshop welcomes writers of all levels.

About the instructor

ADELE ELISE WILLIAMS is the author of Wager, a collection of poetry. She is an Inprint Zilkha Foundation Fellow and a candidate for a PhD in literature and creative writing at the University of Houston. A former executive pastry chef, she is co-editor (with Dana Levin) of Bert Meyers: On the Life and Work of an American Master. Her poetry has appeared in numerous publications and received multiple honors, including the 2023 Inprint Marion Barthelme Prize in Creative Writing.

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