Birds Memorize Their Parent’s Songs  in Sleep: A Generative Workshop

Center for Contemporary Arts

Birds Memorize Their Parent’s Songs in Sleep: A Generative Workshop in Subject Matter with Amy Beeder

Center for Contemporary Arts Santa Fe

In this workshop we will generate new work by tackling fresh subjects. We’ll first inspect the craft elements of several poems and discuss how each is made: how does the poet handle the subject? How do the form, images, sound and diction support it? What can we learn and attempt? What can we consciously imitate? Next, we’ll generate new work through in-class exercises. Remember that a poem can start practically anywhere: from something overheard, a menu, a splinter of bitterness, a bizarre or haunting historical fact, a weird or archaic word, that fact that one teaspoon of a neutron star weighs three tons―you get the idea. Please bring your writing tools. Amy Beeder is the author of three books of poetry: Burn the Field, Now Make an Altar (CMU), and most recently And So Wax Was Made &amp; Also Honey (Tupelo Press), described by Dana Levin as “a verbal treasure house wizarding through time.” Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Poetry, AGNI, The Southern Review, The Nation, Kenyon Review, Guesthouse, and many other journals. The recipient of an NEA Fellowship in Poetry, a Merrill Fellowship and a Discovery/The Nation Award, she teaches poetry in Albuquerque. This program is supported by the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry

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