PSNY Virtual Workshop: Narrative Stutter

An all-levels generative virtual workshop with poet David Greenspan!

Narrative coheres language and transmits one’s thoughts to other beings in a logical, understandable form. While not all poets employ narrative structures, linearity cannot help but emerges as a poem starts, unfolds, and offers some sort of conclusion. We can name this process narrative stutter, or a pushing against narrative and the order it provides without fully disengaging, an ambivalent affinity. Drawing from Ato Quayson’s idea of aesthetic nervousness, then holding hands with Lyn Hejinian's new sentence, this workshop will explore ways to glitch and fragment narrative within our poems. We’ll read ceative work by ee Cummings, Lyn Hejinian, Shane McCrae, and Anne Carson to help our process of dissolving.

About the Instructor: David Greenspan is the author of One Person Holds So Much Silence (Driftwood Press), Milk Sickness (Querencia Press) and the chapbooks Error (antiphony Press) and Nervous System with Dramamine (The Offending Adam). Recent work appears in Hunger Mountain, The Iowa Review, Passages North, Spoon River Poetry Review, and others.

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