How to Grapple with Trauma in Poems with Eve Grubin (via Zoom)

How do poets write about the trauma? Why and how do they employ such strategies as fragmentation, dissociation, reticence and repetition to address a subject that is not bearable? Can this be a healing process for the poet? For the reader of the poem? This short course will include both readings and a discussion of poems by poets such as Emily Dickinson, Yusef Komunyakaa, Paul Celan, Lucille Clifton and others. Participants will be given prompts and will write in response to the discussion and to the poems we are reading. (Safeguarding: Given the focus of this course, aspects of the session may include sensitive topics. Please look after yourself in this environment and know that if you need to take a break at any time or interact in another way – such as by being off-camera or communicating via the written chat, rather than verbally – that will be totally…