Contemporary Women in Poetry: A Six-Week Close Reading and Poetry Workshop with Emily Leithauser (Zoom)
Wed, May 06
|Zoom
Each class begins with a close reading/discussion of poems by women who, across a range of styles and traditions, are changing the landscape of contemporary poetry. Exploring the formal and thematic experiments of these influential voices, we will dedicate the second hour to workshopping our poems.
Time & Location
May 06, 2026, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM
Zoom
About the event
This course meets Wednesdays from 7:30-9:30 p.m. (ET) on Zoom on May 6, 13, 20, 27, June 3 and June 10.
Course Summary
Tracy K. Smith, former Poet Laureate and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, wrote recently that “poetry resists the formulaic in its bid to reawaken us to the miracle and the mystery of our lives.” Our task in this course is to (re)awaken ourselves to our own lives through the mysteries of verse. Tracy K. Smith’s delight in epistemological uncertainty, Ada Limón’s awe at the transcendence of our daily lives, Natasha Trethewey’s emphasis on empathy, history, and collective memory, Gjertrud Schnackenberg’s reinvention of the elegy, and A.E. Stallings’s subversive reimagination of traditional forms will guide us along the way. We will also turn to the work of new and emerging poets who are working across a range of traditions, and who raise the question of how to understand poetry…
Tickets
General Admission
$350.00
+$8.75 ticket service fee
Total
$0.00