Wednesday, October 16th, 2024, 5:00PM-7:00PM

Meeting will take place in the Poetry Center's Alumni Room, Room 205; limit 12 students. General registration will open on Tuesday, August 13th at 10:00AM. SOLD OUT.

In this class, we will consider the possibilities for a daily poetic practice by looking at innovative writers and their innovative approaches to daily writing. We will look at Bernadette Mayer’s list of journal ideas, Kimiko Hahn and Harryette Mullen’s tanka journals, William Carlos Williams’ writings on his prescription pads, José García Villa’s practice of versifying found prose, Alexis Pauline Gumbs’ Instagram posts, and Edgar Garcia’s poetic record of his nightmares after reading the journals of Christopher Columbus. We will talk about journals, notebooks, pillow books, commonplace books, and social media posts. Based upon our readings, we will also participate in writing exercises—generating new work and sharing some of it out loud.