FREE
Free Write with Elaine Sexton Poetry: Process & Practice
In this workshop we will start with a writing prompt designed to jump-start ideas for lines we may already have ticking in our heads, a fresh approach proven to help conjure fresh language Houdini-like into being. We will consider poems as idea carriers, writing about “things the mind knows,” to quote the game-changing artist Jasper Johns, on choosing subject matter in his early work, paintings of flashlights, targets, flags, and maps. We will look at iconic and contemporary poems for their scaffoldings, and glean the strategies found there for you to apply during and after class. Each participant will receive a “hand out” of poems to take away, and links to what we view on screen. Come with pencil and paper. Seasoned writers and beginners welcome!
Elaine Sexton’s latest collection of poems, her fourth, is Drive, just out (April 12, 2022) with Grid Books. Her poems, art reviews, book reviews, and works in visual art have appeared in journals and anthologies, textbooks and websites including American Poetry Review, Art in America, Poetry, O! the Oprah Magazine, and Poetry Daily. She teaches text and image and poetry at Sarah Lawrence College and has been guest faculty at New York University and in the graduate writing program at City College (CUNY). She is regularly invited to teach poetry, bookmaking, and art writing at arts and writing programs and centers in the U.S. and abroad, Formerly a senior editor at ARTnews and visual arts editor for Tupelo Quarterly, she serves as a contributing editor for On the Seawall, and is a member of the National Book Critics Circle. elainesexton.org
To Purchase:
https://www.grid-books.org/elaine-sexton
or Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Drive-Elaine-Sexton/dp/1946830143