What Is a Poem? A Course for Serious Readers and Writers of Poems
$60.00
sold out
with Mary Maxwell
Five Fridays from 1-3 p.m.
February 2, 9, 16, 23, March l
at the Wellfleet Library
Course limited to 12 participants.
Not a writing workshop (though it would be of special interest to practicing poets), this seminar will ask the question “What is a poem?” Five weekly sessions will present the history of the art form as a “technology of memory”; how it has evolved through history in response to cultural needs; and how the poem’s archaic aspects remain expressed in contemporary practice. The seminar’s first hour will be an informal lecture; the second will involve class discussion and participatory readings of poems selected by the instructor.