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A Master Craft Talk on Persona with Ellen Bass (Via Zoom)
March 2 @ 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm
$130.00
The Persona Poem
If you’re going to write a persona poem it better be about you.
––Stanley Plumly
Writing a persona poem allows us to inhabit anyone (or anything) and to explore what is sometimes called the umwelt, the world as it is experienced by another entity. At the same time, this intimate form makes it possible to talk about the self in ways we might not dare in our own voice. The persona poem can also provide a means to approach injustices and overlooked perspectives with deep empathy. We’ll read poems that assume an array of voices from Demeter to a drag queen, from a mummy to a roly-poly bug to salt! All of which will inspire our own poems and enlarge how we think about ourselves and the world.