Workshop: “Here We Are: Alive and Dying in the Boundless World”

Thu, April 4, 2019 9:00 AM at the LookOut! Gallery

Location:
LookOut! Art Gallery, Second Floor
Snyder Hall
362 Bogue Street
East Lansing, MIchigan 48824

10 A.M. with light catered lunch at 11 A.M.

Registration limited to 15.

To register, email cpoetry@msu.edu  or visit https://goo.gl/forms/NoPGdC9gWmWDX9w33

Poetry and life are filled with beginnings and endings: some unexpected, some unresolved, all full of the potential for radical joy and transformation. In this class we will think deeply about the beginnings and the endings of poems and how we might let go of some of our expectations for those highly charged spaces in order to create more free-flowing and luminous bodies of work. This class is open to poets at all levels (beginning and ending!). The class will be a mix of generative work, meditative reading and response, and some workshopping that will be open and supportive and based on figuring out what the most fruitful questions might be in trying to expand and accept the life and journey of the poem. 

Gabrielle Calvocoressi is the author of The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart, Apocalyptic Swing (a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize), and Rocket Fantastic, winner of the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry. Calvocoressi is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including a Stegner Fellowship and Jones Lectureship from Stanford University, a Rona Jaffe Woman Writer's Award, a Lannan Foundation residency in Marfa, TX, the Bernard F. Conners Prize from The Paris Review, and a residency from the Civitella di Ranieri Foundation, among others. Calvocoressi is an Editor at Large at Los Angeles Review of Books, and Poetry Editor at Southern Cultures. Works in progress include a non-fiction book entitled, The Year I Didn't Kill Myself and a novel, The Alderman of the Graveyard. Calvocoressi teaches at UNC Chapel Hill and lives in Carrboro, NC, where joy, compassion, and social justice are at the center of their personal and poetic practice.

For more information, visit http://poetry.rcah.msu.edu/