Poetry Workshop: Let Us Now Praise the Mutilated World
Week 8 | M, Tu, W, Th, F | CLA Alumni Hall Poetry Room | Ages 18 and up
The title of this workshop is a mash-up of the nonfiction book by James Agee and the poem by Polish poet, Adam Zagajewski. The very first poems (in nearly any language) were praise poems, but unadorned lyric praise might seem harder to pull off in an age marked by war, political strife, and climate change than when Wordsworth sang of daffodils. We’ll read poems by Robinson Jeffers, Terrance Hayes, Campbell McGrath, Rita Dove, Claudia Rankine and others, as a means of generating (and challenging) your work. Flexible. (ages 18+)
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Ralph Black is the author of Turning Over the Earth, from Milkweed Editions, and a chapbook, The Apple Psalms. He is the recipient of the Anne Halley Poetry Prize from The Massachusetts Review and the Chelsea Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in The Georgia and Gettysburg Reviews, Orion, and West Branch. His newest collection is Bloom and Laceration, which received the 2017 Hopper Poetry Prize from Green Writers Press. Recently retired from SUNY, Brockport, he lives in Rochester, NY.
