Objective Correlative: A Six-Week Poetry Craft Workshop in Finding and Developing Imagery with David McLoghlin (Zoom)
Wed, Jan 07
|Zoom
Each class will dedicate an hour to reading and discussing exemplary poems, learning to read as writers, identifying prompts and what we would like to “steal” and how we would go about implementing our learnings in our own poems. The second hour will be dedicated to workshopping our own work.
Time & Location
Jan 07, 2026, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Zoom
About the event
This course will meet on Wednesdays from 1:00-3:00 p.m. EST on the following dates: January 7, 14, 21, 28, February 4 and 11. All classes will be held on Zoom.
Course Summary
The “Objective Correlative” (T.S. Eliot) is, quite simply, the ability to find in the “outside world” a signifier, or equivalent, for our inner human experience. For poets, typically, we see the Objective Correlative in the form of an image. From the haiku poets, via the Imagists, to Plath and beyond, imagery has been continually identified as the engine of the poem. Some of the most significant poems employ “deep imagery” that resonates on more than one level, staying with us long after the poem is read. Finding imagery that conveys our deepest experience is at the centre of this course.
Course Outline
William Carlos Williams wrote “No idea but in things,” communicating the importance of remaining concrete and “showing”…
Tickets
General Admission
$335.00
+$8.38 ticket service fee
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