DEAD POETS WORKSHOP: LITTLE FLOWERS

Now enrolling for March

In Latin, a florilegium literally means “a gathering of flowers.” Florilegiums were a kind of personal anthology and collection of favorite literary extracts assembled by scholars. For this edition of the DEAD POETS WORKSHOPS, we will read single poems from a wide array of authors. A gathering of flowers. Our own greatest hits of poetry. Reading list includes Bernadette Mayer, Etheridge Knight, Emily Dickinson, Wallace Stevens, Alfred Starr Hamilton, Henry Dumas, Sylvia Plath, Barbara Guest, Tomaz Salamun, James Tate, Elizabeth Bishop, Frank O’Hara, Lorine Niedecker, Amiri Baraka, Fernando Pessoa, Anne Sexton, Audre Lorde, Bertolt Brecht, John Wieners, Gwendolyn Brooks, Kenneth Koch, William Carlos Williams, Li Qingzhao, Robert Creeley, Robert Hayden, Dylan Thomas, John Ashbery & more. Oh Boy!

Students will submit poems for feedback on a weekly basis, with optional writing prompts also provided. We will put our writing in conversation with the DEAD to better understand why were are even writing poems in the first place. Class meets on Tuesdays in March.

4 weekly Tuesday meetings
March 4, 11, 18, 25.
6-8pm EST
meetings held online via Zoom
$75-150 sliding scale
Lead by blush editor Jon Ruseski

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email: blush.editors@gmail.com

subject: LITTLE FLOWERS

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