Special Workshops, Seminars, and Lectures


September 13
Poetry Seminar with Ed Madden
“Leaps, Shifts, and Turns: Exploring Poetic Structures”
Saturday, September 13, 10:00 a.m. - noon
Arts Council of Beaufort County
2127 Beaufort Town Center, Beaufort
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In 1972, Robert Bly called for “leaping poetry,” and more recently Michael Theune has suggested that poets think about poetic structures that are distinct from poetic forms—dialectical, descriptive-meditative, and ironic, for example, rather than sonnet, villanelle, or blank verse. When Alice Quinn stepped down as poetry editor of the New Yorker, she noted that there seems to be a lot more “leaping” in contemporary poetry. In this workshop, we will explore ideas of structure—the leaps, shifts, and turns that may animate and inform our own writing processes.

October 11
Poetry Seminar with Evie Shockley
“A Sound Foundation for Poetry”
10:00 a.m. - noon
Location to be announced
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This seminar reminds us of poetry's origins in the oral and its long historical relationship with the lyric by focusing on the music of language, as well as considering other ways of bringing music into (and into conversation with) our poems. We will look at (and listen to) ways that sound, when not taken for granted, can become an important foundational part of the formal structure, emotional resonance, and/or intellectual pleasure of the poems we create.

March 14
Poetry Seminar with Alan Michael Parker

April
Poetry Seminar with Carol Frost
Charleston
Details to be announced

May
Workshop at Debordieu
Details to be announced