Poetry And The Visual World: Image, Description, Metaphor with Christina Pugh (Zoom)

How do we “see” in poetry? Poets have always taken inspiration from the visual world – whether from geographies, visual artworks, or the human face.  This course will explore the various ways that poetry can inhabit the visual world, by looking closely at poems by Sylvia Plath, Charles Wright, and others.  Our course will also include writing prompts focusing on image, description, and metaphor. We will conclude the class by having an exploratory, supportive discussion of the work by class members that the prompts have generated.

BIO

Christina Pugh’s six books of poems include The Right Hand (Tupelo Press, 2024) and Stardust Media (University of Massachusetts Press, 2020), winner of the Juniper Prize. She is also the author of Ghosts and the Overplus: Reading Poetry in the Twenty-First Century (University of Michigan Press, 2024), a finalist for the Foreword Indie Essay Book of the Year.  Her poems have appeared widely, including…