Poetry Craft Talk: On Turning "Gossip into Gospel"
This generative class will explore the expansive and political nature of the “I,” in poetry and how poets transform and transcend biography in service of something bigger. We will use poems by Tiana Clark, Layli Long Soldier, Malcolm Tariq, and Natasha Trethewey as guides to how we might use our own personal narratives to create poetry that speaks the truth in all of its fullness, nuance, and complexity. This class borrows its title from the poet Reginald Dwayne Betts, and will encourage consideration of how the “personal is political,” and how we can make use of this in our poems.
Brionne Janae is a poet and educator living in Brooklyn. They are a recipient of the 2016 St. Botoloph Emerging Artist award, a Hedgebrook Alum and proud Cave Canem Fellow. Their poetry has been published or is forthcoming in The American Poetry Review, The Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, The Sun Magazine jubilat, Sixth Finch, Plume, The Nashville Review, and Waxwing among others. Brionne’s first full length collection of poetry After Jubilee was published by Boaat Press.
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This generative class will explore the expansive and political nature of the “I,” in poetry and how poets transform and transcend biography in service of something bigger. We will use poems by Tiana Clark, Layli Long Soldier, Malcolm Tariq, and Natasha Trethewey as guides to how we might use our own personal narratives to create poetry that speaks the truth in all of its fullness, nuance, and complexity. This class borrows its title from the poet Reginald Dwayne Betts, and will encourage consideration of how the “personal is political,” and how we can make use of this in our poems.
Brionne Janae is a poet and educator living in Brooklyn. They are a recipient of the 2016 St. Botoloph Emerging Artist award, a Hedgebrook Alum and proud Cave Canem Fellow. Their poetry has been published or is forthcoming in The American Poetry Review, The Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, The Sun Magazine jubilat, Sixth Finch, Plume, The Nashville Review, and Waxwing among others. Brionne’s first full length collection of poetry After Jubilee was published by Boaat Press.
Login details and handouts are sent to participants shortly after registration.
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