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Comfort and Affliction: Writing Trauma in Poems
Thu 13 Jun 2024 to Thu 12 Dec 2024
How do poets write about the unspeakable? How do we teach students to write about impossible subject matter? Why and how do poets employ such strategies as fragmentation, dissociation, reticence and repetition to address a subject that is not bearable? Can poetry be a healing process for the poet? For the reader?
‘Poetry comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable’ – Lucille Clifton
This course explores all of these questions and includes a discussion of poems by poets such as Emily Dickinson, Yusef Komunyakaa, Paul Celan, and others. Participants will have the opportunity to respond to short prompts with writing exercises and finally to share their own work and receive feedback.
This is an ongoing course and students may sign up for one or more classes
Eve Grubin is the author of Morning Prayer (Sheep Meadow Press), The House of Our First Loving (Rack Press) and Grief Dialogue (Rack Press). Her next book of poems Boat of Letters will be published by Four Way Books in 2025. She is a lecturer at NYU London and a tutor at the Poetry School.
Dates: Thursdays 2.00-4.00 UK Time, 13 June -12 December 2024 (this is a notional end date)
Location: Online via Zoom
Cost: £37 for one class; £108 for three classes; £200 for 6 classes. ** Special rate for NAWE members - email evegrubin@gmail.com for details.
For more information go to www.evegrubin.com
Email evegrubin@gmail.com with questions or to register.
Additional Information:
Location:
Online
Region(s):
International
Price:
From £37 for one class (special NAWE rate available)
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