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Poets read poetry. And poems often respond to or are in conversation with other poems in various ways. To name a few, there’s the “after poem” and the homage or tribute. Some poems answer, argue, or elaborate.
This session will look at some conversations from my recent collection entitled Are We There Yet? Poems I’ve responded to include W.S. Merwin's "For the Anniversary of My Death," Adrienne Rich’s “An Atlas of the Difficult World” and Czeslaw Milosz's "Ars Poetics?”
For the writing segment, we’ll converse with a poem. To the poems already considered, I’ll add two by U.S Poet Laureate Arthur Sze. We’ll spend time reflecting on the experience and hearing drafts.
To end, we’ll turn to “In Memory of W.B. Yeats” by W.H. Auden.
$35 for members
$50 for non-members (includes a membership to MHR)
Attendance is capped at 10 people.
Ellen Goldsmith reads, writes and teaches poetry. Her books include Are We There Yet? (Kelsay Books) and a number of chapbooks. Her first, No Pine Tree in This Forest Is Perfect, won the 1997 Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Competition and was described as an incandescent collection. She holds an Ed.D. from Teachers College, Columbia University, is professor emerita of The City University of New York. and lives in Cushing, Maine.
Poets read poetry. And poems often respond to or are in conversation with other poems in various ways. To name a few, there’s the “after poem” and the homage or tribute. Some poems answer, argue, or elaborate.
This session will look at some conversations from my recent collection entitled Are We There Yet? Poems I’ve responded to include W.S. Merwin's "For the Anniversary of My Death," Adrienne Rich’s “An Atlas of the Difficult World” and Czeslaw Milosz's "Ars Poetics?”
For the writing segment, we’ll converse with a poem. To the poems already considered, I’ll add two by U.S Poet Laureate Arthur Sze. We’ll spend time reflecting on the experience and hearing drafts.
To end, we’ll turn to “In Memory of W.B. Yeats” by W.H. Auden.
$35 for members
$50 for non-members (includes a membership to MHR)
Attendance is capped at 10 people.
Ellen Goldsmith reads, writes and teaches poetry. Her books include Are We There Yet? (Kelsay Books) and a number of chapbooks. Her first, No Pine Tree in This Forest Is Perfect, won the 1997 Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Competition and was described as an incandescent collection. She holds an Ed.D. from Teachers College, Columbia University, is professor emerita of The City University of New York. and lives in Cushing, Maine.