Poetry Master Class: Entering "The Cave of One's Self"

Sun, Sep 27 2020
10:00 am – 12:30 pm
Virtual

lectures and discussions poetry

This generative master class will be led by award-winning poet and educator Tyree Daye.

Class Description: “The poet Vievee Francis introduced the concept of entering "the cave of one's self" during my grad school years at North Carolina State University,” Tyree explains. “Vievee encouraged me to explore my narrative, to investigate my symbols, and to break them open and to look inside of them. My narrative is that I'm black, southern, raised by a single mother. Knowing my narrative helps me understand why tobacco fields and dirt roads show up in my poems. By identifying and exploring my symbols, I can begin to telescope inside them, making the language I use to speak about them fresh, and discover why these symbols were given to me. I believe our images come from God and are our egoless souls trying to make us see our connection to the world. In our workshop, I will ask students to enter "the cave of one's self" through several writing exercises.”  

About the Instructor: Tyree Daye is a poet from Youngsville, North Carolina, and a Teaching Assistant Professor at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is the author of two poetry collections River Hymns 2017 APR/Honickman First Book Prize winner and Cardinal forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press 2020. Daye is a Cave Canem fellow. Daye won the 2019 Palm Beach Poetry Festival Langston Hughes Fellowship, 2019 Diana and Simon Raab Writer-In-Residence at UC Santa Barbara, and is a 2019 Kate Tufts Finalist. Daye most recently was awarded a 2019 Whiting Writers Award.

Master classes offered through Brooklyn Public Library are free to the public. Log in details and handouts are sent to participants shortly after registration. 

Add to My Calendar 09/27/2020 10:00 am 09/27/2020 12:30 pm America/New_York Poetry Master Class: Entering "The Cave of One's Self" <p>This generative master class will be led by award-winning poet and educator <strong>Tyree Daye</strong>.</p> <p><strong>Class Description</strong>: “The poet Vievee Francis introduced the concept of entering "the cave of one's self" during my grad school years at North Carolina State University,” Tyree explains. “Vievee encouraged me to explore my narrative, to investigate my symbols, and to break them open and to look inside of them. My narrative is that I'm black, southern, raised by a single mother. Knowing my narrative helps me understand why tobacco fields and dirt roads show up in my poems. By identifying and exploring my symbols, I can begin to telescope inside them, making the language I use to speak about them fresh, and discover why these symbols were given to me. I believe our images come from God and are our egoless souls trying to make us see our connection to the world. In our workshop, I will ask students to enter "the cave of one's self" through several writing exercises.”&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>About the Instructor</strong>: Tyree Daye is a poet from Youngsville, North Carolina, and a Teaching Assistant Professor at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is the author… Brooklyn Public Library - Virtual MM/DD/YYYY 60