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Poetry in the Realms of the Senses
WRITING X 432.19E
Activate the five senses of the body and bring them to life in your poems in this workshop exploring what it means to inhabit a physical form.
What you can learn.
- Employ the five senses of the body to deepen the imagery and impact of your poems
- Read published work by poets that demonstrates sensory approaches to the body
- Explore themes of writing about sensory perceptions, movement, and beyond
- Draw new inspiration and deepen your poetic practice through drafting and workshopping
About this course:
There are many ways to write candidly about the body. In this course, you plunge into–and beyond–the realms of your senses to shape new work. We explore different facets and themes of writing about sensory perceptions; movement; and of course, the body, in all its necessary excavations, eroticisms and exorcisms; so that one might re-center existing narratives, draw new inspiration and find autonomy of their voice. We will seek to search for and reshape all what it means to inhabit the human body. We’ll read work by Safiya Sinclair, Paul Tran, Roy G. Guzmán, Christian Gullette, Natalie Diaz, Dorothy K. Chan, Carl Phillips, Chen Chen and more.Contact Us
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