Conversations in Craft with Camille Dungy (Zoom)

True Definition: Building Brilliant Poems Starting With Just One Word

If writing and reading poetry helps us more clearly define our worlds, how can leaning into the act of defining helps us write our poems? In this class, we’ll talk about poems that pay close attention to specific words and to the definitions of those words. Reading the work of poets like A. Van Jordan, Robert Hass, Vievee Frances, Danez Smith, Mairead Byrne, and others, we'll consider ways individual words and their definitions can create whole new ways of understanding the world.

The Hudson Valley Writers Center is proud to present a monthly craft series featuring four award-winning writers & beloved teachers. Each writer will share insights gleaned from decades of devoting themselves to studying the craft of poetry or prose. Unlike a workshop environment that prioritizes student work and student-led conversation in single or weekly sessions, these monthly lectures…