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PAUL E NELSON

Keeping Your Hand (foot, spleen) in It: Poetry Writing Exercises

Keeping Your Hand (foot, spleen) in It: Poetry Writing Exercises

 

Finding time to write in this chaotic era can be challenging, but by experiencing a variety of writing exercises (postcards, American Sentences) we have more possibilities of finding that one project which defines us as a person/poet. Charles Olson, Jose Kozer, Anne Waldman, Nathaniel Mackey, Pablo Neruda, Ed Sanders and Lorine Niedecker are among the poets whose work or methods we may examine or use as examples. Available in an abbreviated single session of 90 minute or up to 8 hours (4, weekly 2-hour sessions), participants can expect to leave with several new poems.