Homes and Hauntings: : A Six-Week Close Reading and Generative Poetry Workshop with Emily Leithauser (Zoom)
Tue, Sep 08
|Zoom
Each class will begin with a close reading and discussion of poems exploring what it means for places, domestic spaces, and/or people to feel haunted. The second half of the class will be devoted to workshopping students’ poems.
Time & Location
Sep 08, 2026, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM
Zoom
About the event
This course meets 6 Tuesdays from 7:30-9:30 p.m. (ET) on Zoom on September 8, 15, 22, 29, October 6 & 13.
Course Summary
While the novel and the short story have been associated since the 19th century with the Gothic, the supernatural, the unearthly, and the uncanny, poetry has its own rich parallel tradition, stretching into our world today. Students will have the opportunity to compose poems that grapple—however loosely—with how they understand “hauntedness.”
Course Outline
This course is divided equally between close reading/elements of craft and workshopping. Beginning with Victorian and Modernist hauntings in works by Tennyson, Dickinson, Hardy, and Eliot, we will look at modern and contemporary poems by Sylvia Plath, Philip Larkin, W.B. Yeats, W.H. Auden, Agha Shahid Ali, Anthony Hecht, Claudia Emerson, Louise Glück, Carl Phillips, Seamus Heaney, Carolyn Forché, Natasha Trethewey, Frank Bidart, Lucille Clifton, Armen Davoudian, and Cathy Linh Che, among others. Some of the…
Tickets
General Admission
$350.00
+$8.75 ticket service fee
Total
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