PSNY Virtual Workshop: How to Overhear Yourself

An all-levels generative virtual workshop with poet Rosie Stockton!

This poetry workshop is an experiment in making one’s own speech strange to oneself. Drawing from the logic of Sappho’s Fragments and Arthur Rimbaud’s derangement of senses, the goal is to find something in your own language you could not have expected. Taking cues from the erasure poem, this workshop uses an anti-collage technique to magnify and clump poems out of associative writing. Like the logic of the fragment, the shred, the loose end – this allows us to detach from our stories and find meaning in what’s missing. Like Kazim Ali writes in “The ‘Tradition’ of the Fragment” we are interested here in “the fragment’s ability to evoke what is unsaid.” The fragment isn’t about what is lost to history, but what is gained in the missing.

About the Instructor: Rosie Stockton is the author of Fuel (Nightboat Books 2025) and Permanent Volta (Nightboat Books 2021), which was a finalist for the California Book Awards in Poetry. Recent poems have been published by Lithub, Poetry Society of America, Social Text Journal, VOLT, Annulet, and Tripwire. They hold an M.A. in Creative Writing from Eastern Michigan University and are currently a Ph.D. Candidate in the Gender Studies Department at UCLA. Rosie lives and works in Los Angeles.

**This workshop will take place on Zoom.**