When Poetry Meets Memoir [Anastacia-Renee]

Advanced | We will push beyond recalling our memories by blending them with poetic devices to create prose and formatted poems. We’ll discover new ways to achieve vivid”storytelling,” personal archiving, and limitless point of view while creating contemporary forms of poetry using Jericho Brown’s “The Tradition” and Yrsa Daly Ward’s “The Terrible” as our texts. Participants will complete class with one lengthy piece and two shorter pieces as a springboard for larger works or works-in-progress beyond class.