When Poetry Meets Prose: Prose Poem Generative Workshop with Denise Duhamel (via Zoom)

Russel Edson has called the prose poem “a cast-iron aeroplane that can actually fly, mainly because the pilot doesn’t seem to care if it does or not,” while the Laura Sullivan explains that the language of prose poems is for “people who don’t often get to hold the floor and know at any moment they may be cut off.” In this generative workshop we will explore prose poems as shape (think beds, billboards, mattresses, paintings), as fables, as meditations, and more. Please bring a favorite small object for the “deep image” emulation. Please also bring your sense of play. Or as Beckian Fritz Goldberg puts it, “The prose poem is like the ugliest girl at the party who is having the best time. To which I say, Party on.”

NB: This class will be taught on Zoom and will be capped at 15 students. Registrants will receive the Zoom link to the email address they use to register. It will arrive immediately after registration so please check your spam folder if you do not receive it. It will also be sent the day before class as a reminder. Please review the course policies page before registering for any classes. Please email misty@writerscenter.org with any questions.

All HVWC scholarship applications will be available on Dec 1 and will be due on Dec 15 for all winter/spring 2024 classes.

Denise Duhamel’s most recent books of poetry are Second Story (Pittsburgh, 2021) and Scald (2017). Blowout (2013) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. A proponent of collaboration, she and Maureen Seaton have co-authored five collections, the most recent of which is CAPRICE (Collaborations: Collected, Uncollected, and New) (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2015). Her nonfiction publications include The Unrhymables: Collaborations in Prose (with Julie Marie Wade, Noctuary Press, 2019). A recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, she is a distinguished university professor in the MFA program at Florida International University in Miami.