Tuesdays, July 15th and 29th, 2025, 5:00PM - 7:00PM

Meetings will take place in the Poetry Center's Alumni Room, Room 205; limit 12 students. General registration for Summer 2025 will open on Tuesday, May 27th at 10:00AM. 

How are maps like poems and poems like maps? The second part of this question interests me most. In this two-session, generative class, we'll focus on memory and place and the ways we construct poems in relation to internal and external cartographies.  We'll start by reading "map" poems by artist-poets such as Craig Santos-Perez, Naomi Shihab Nye, Douglas Kearney, Evie Schockley, and Joanna Diaz, then generating our own with a series of curated prompts so that we leave each session with new material and ideas for poetic "mapping" practices. We'll also explore the map as a visual form for the poem, viewing work by contemporary artists working within this genre (e.g. Brendan Lorber, Lisa Muth, and more). With these visual examples, materials, and templates and ink provided, we'll try our hand at creating a poetry map (or two) of our own using text and fragments from new work generated in class. Come ready to write, play, and experiment. Open to writers and visual artists of all levels of experience.