Poetry Workshop: Looking at Poems of Looking
Week 5 | M, Tu, W, Th, F | CLA Alumni Hall Poetry Room | Ages 18 and up
In this workshop, participants will closely consider five different poems by poets such as Yusef Komunyakaa, Henri Cole, Elizabeth Bishop, C. K. Williams, and Rainer Maria Rilke engaged in the act of looking. We will consider the way each poem's sight leads to insight, and then we will practice some looking of our own. Flexible. (ages 18+)
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Jennifer Grotz is the author of four books of poetry: Still Falling, appearing May 2023 from Graywolf Press, as well as Window Left Open, The Needle, and Cusp. Also a translator, her co-translations with Piotr Sommer from the Polish of Jerzy Ficowski's Everything I Don't Know received the PEN America Best Translated Book of Poetry Award in 2022. Additionally she's published two books of translations from the French: Psalms of All My Days by Patrice de La Tour du Pin, and Rochester Knockings, by the Tunisian-born novelist Hubert Haddad. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Camargo Foundation, and the Rona Jaffe Foundation, she teaches poetry and translation at the University of Rochester and directs the Bread Loaf Writers' Conferences.