POETRY EVENTS - NEW YORK CITY

Saturday February 7, 3:00pm
Transgenres with Vijay Seshadri

Why do so many poets also write prose nonfiction? What transformations occur between poem and essay? Pulitzer Prizewinner Vijay Seshadri, whose newest book is 3 Sections, discusses notions of identity, form, and fulfillment for contemporary writers.

Part of Other Impulses: Poets Writing Across Genres. 

Admission: $10, $7 for students and seniors, free to Poets House members
Location: Poets House
10 River Terrace 

Get to know Vijay Seshadri in this recent New York Times profile

The Red Balloon

Saturday February 14, 11:00am
Floating Valentines: A Screening of The Red Balloon

In celebration of Valentine’s Day, Poets House presents Albert Lamorisse’s timeless children’s film classic The Red Balloon. Afterward, children will make their own floating valentines in the form of hot-air balloon mobiles. 

Admission: Suggested donation $5

WINTER SIX-WEEK OPEN ENROLLMENT WORKSHOPS

These poetry workshops give special focus to the relationship between reading and writing poetry. Open to all levels, six-week courses are offered on a wide variety of topics. Register early – first come, first served; Fee:$325

Brainlingo: Writing the Voice of the Body with Edwin Torres 
6 Wednesdays, February 18 to March 25, 6:00-8:30pm 

We create our own communication. How we listen affects how we speak. How we see our language affects how our voice is heard. Where the senses meet each other is where poetry can begin. Is it possible to allow the body its place in writing? Using exercises of space, sound, performance, theater, collage, and page, as a guide, this workshop will be a creative laboratory that explores how we communicate by exercising the languages inside us. Over six weeks, work will be created, discarded, and renewed in an active writing workshop where movement ignites the process.

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Poems from Late Empire with Scott Hightower 
6 Thursdays, February 19 to March 26, 6:00-8:30pm 

This is a workshop about writing poems from the post September 11th, post Madrid train bombing, post Charlie Hebdo world. The Muse and the Banshee are both welcomed. We will be looking at both historical and contemporary poems—like those of Andy Young, Cynthia Hogue, Gregory Pardlo, Peter Covino, and Steve Fellner—and considering notions of Gaston Bachelard's "The Poetics of Space" and poem as a place for the imagination to dwell.

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A Pattern of Behavior: Serial Poems with Krystal Languell 
6 Saturdays, February 21 to April 4 (skipping March 14), 11:30am-2:00pm 

How can we create momentum across a series of poems while holding onto the original big idea? A linked sequence creates its own terms for existence, and those terms may be formal, rhetorical, metrical, emotional, or a combination—or something else! This workshop will engage in exercises designed to develop and sustain a serial poem. Possible course texts include readings from Alice Notley, Dawn Lundy Martin, Roland Barthes, and Rickey Laurentiis. Students will emerge from this workshop with a draft of a six-poem sequence.

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