PSNY Virtual Workshop: Poetics Through Performance & Play

With poet Juliet Gelfman-Randazzo!

In this generative workshop, we will consider poems that engage and manipulate playful forms (for instance, a choose your own adventure, a classified ad, a repetitive form). Attendees will then use these examples to inspire their own experiments, considering routes to writing poems through games, jokes, and other sites of play. We will additionally discuss opportunities to amplify the text on the page through its performance, and push the boundaries between performance and the written word—considering how one might share a poem that is in some way "impossible." All attendees will have the opportunity to share their experiments.

About the Instructor: Juliet Gelfman-Randazzo lives in Philadelphia, where she curates the reading series Spit Poetry. She is the author of the poetry chapbooks "Heehee" (Ursus Americanus Press, 2024) and "DUH" (Bullshit Lit, 2022), and her work appears or is forthcoming in Joyland, The Offing, Poetry Northwest, The Rumpus, and The Cleveland Review of Books, among others. She received her MFA from Rutgers-Camden in 2023 and attended the summer 2024 Tin House Workshop. She can be followed @tall.spy (Instagram) and @tall__spy (Twitter) but she can never be caught.

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