Writers
Vessels for Memory: Generative Poetry
Engage with poetry texts and techniques to write new poems rooted in personal memory.
Meeting Times
- Tue, 4/23/2024 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
- Tue, 4/30/2024 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
- Tue, 5/7/2024 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Tue, 4/23/2024 - Tue, 5/7/2024
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About
This three-week generative and analytic course will guide you in writing six or more poems informed by personal memory. By examining contemporary texts and experimenting with prompts, you'll build an understanding of how memory-based scenes and references take shape and find a dwelling place within poems. You’ll learn how to create scaffoldings for poems that honor the complex weave of human emotion. We will explore the following:
- Sensory objects as provocation
- Poetic constraints: your emotional oracle
- Spinning new myths from memories
We'll create a safe, exploratory, and constructive environment in which you’ll be encouraged to share some of your poems throughout the three weeks. Meanwhile, through our discussions of various poetic forms and frameworks, you will collect techniques for accessing memory in your own writing practices.
Details
You must have experience reading and writing poems, with expectations to expand your personal writing practice.
Class Policies
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- BARN is committed to accessibility. Tuition Assistance is available. Fill out the application before registering.
- Makerspaces like BARN can be noisy, cluttered, have strong odors, and bright or flickering lights. We try to make accommodations when requested; the earlier you contact us, the more likely we can help. Please email accessibility@bainbridgebarn.org to find out more or request an accommodation.
- For those who might need physical assistance, learn more about BARN's Companion Program.
Instructors or Guides
Carrie Beyer
