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Elegy in a Time of Pandemic (ZOOM) [Chen Chen]

Time: 12:00am - 12:00am PT
Capacity: seat
1 seat left!
Member Price: $81.00
General Price: $90.00

This class will take place via video-conferencing (Zoom), Pacific Time.

How do we write about grief right now, when there are so many (and simultaneous) forms of grief to address? Can poems speak to job loss, loss of everyday routines, loss of future plans, missing friends who are alive but who knows when we’ll get to see them next? And what if we simply can’t write poems at this moment—what do we do with the loss of our sense of being poets? In this generative workshop, we’ll make space for all these questions, looking to a range of elegies not for neat answers (which don’t exist anyway) but a deepening of our attention to where we are, who we are, in the midst of crisis.

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Class sessions may be recorded if a session falls on a holiday, or if a student has access needs. Class recordings are not guaranteed.

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Classes may be cancelled if less than 5 students are enrolled within 10 days before the class start date. If for any reason Hugo House needs to cancel a class, students can choose between a full credit or full refund.

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