To Gather, To Sever, To Mix, To Turn

Catalog description

This highly generative workshop’s goal is to stimulate and provide students with formal tools to develop a chapbook-length series of poems by the term’s end. Students will bring materials to be transformed through processes including but not limited to collage, erasure, and translation. Such materials could be self-generated or found, and may include journal entries, dream logs, letters, text messages, images, archival matter, and much else. As examples of procedural approaches we will read poets such as Jen Bervin, Caroline Bergvall, Lyn Hejinian, Christian Hawkey, Susan Howe, Tyehimba Jess, Tan Lin, Claudia Rankine, and Stacy Szymaszek.