Taught by Mark Wunderlich
Monday, February 8, 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Registration fee: $60.00
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This three-hour course will look at methods of practice for the writing of poems. The great wit Max Beerbohm once said that the most difficult part of being a poet was trying to decide what to do with the other twenty-three and a half hours of the day. In a world of fractured time, fractured attention spans, lives filled with clutter, how do we create time to create meaning, music and pattern? During this class I will introduce a series of exercises created to assist the process of experimentation and composition, with an emphasis on daily practice. We will write together in class, and think about writing as a method of thinking and discovery, rather than a task that results in a product. Students will leave with drafts of new poems, as well as new methods for making work.  

Mark Wunderlich's most recent book is The Earth Avails, published by Graywolf Press, and which received the 2015 Rilke Prize and which was a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award.  His other books are Voluntary Servitude, also published by Graywolf Press, and The Anchorage, which received the Lambda Literary Award.  He has received fellowships from the NEA, The Civitella Ranieri Foundation, the Wallace Stegner Fellowship Program at Stanford University, the Amy Lowell Trust, and elsewhere. His work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, New Republic, Paris Review, Poetry, Tin House, the Best American Poetry and has been featured on NPR's All Things Considered. He teaches literature and writing at Bennington College in Vermont, and lives in New York's Hudson Valley. You can read more about him at www.markwunderlich.com.