Saturdays, October 18th, 25th, and November 1st, 1:00PM - 3:00PM
Meetings will take place in the Poetry Center's Alumni Room, Room 205; limit 12 students. General registration will open on Tuesday, August 19th at 10:00AM.
Protest poetry informs us about crisis, attempting to inspire change among human beings. This workshop, however, addresses an increasingly common variety of protest poetry that delivers its petitions for change to the more-than-human world. Class will look at several examples of such poetry and together discuss the stakes and audiences of prayers, spells, and incantations in particular. We'll look at what stylistic and structural elements help focus such a poem’s energy; and what social, environmental, and personal transformations the poets might have been seeking. Class members will have the chance to write two such poems, in response to optional writing prompts.