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Jazz and Poetry with Sean Singer (via Zoom)
November 10 @ 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm
$130.00
What is a jazz novel? What is jazz poetry? What are the sources of jazz as an art form? What are the sources and meanings of art? What work does the music do for the whole community? The mission of this course is to find out how poets and fiction writers have written about jazz music. How can words, inert objects, be used to convey this blues-based, improvisatory, aural art form? How do writers convey its sound, history within Afro- America, its connections with the Civil Rights Movement, and its own mythology? What is a jazz-related piece of writing? Is it merely “about” jazz, or does it do something more? How have women fit or not fit into jazz’s male-dominated environment? What are the implications for jazz, historically an Afro-American art form, the history of which has been mostly written by whites? How do poems respond to jazz in all its musical and cultural overtones? How are written art forms able or unable to convey an oral form? What is jazz? Where is it going? Readings include a range of fiction and poetry. Students will write both creative and critical work.
NB: This class will be taught on Zoom (Sunday, November 10, 12:30-2:30 PM ET) and will be capped at 15 students. Registrants will receive the Zoom link to the email address they use to register. It will arrive immediately after registration so please check your spam folder if you do not receive it. It will also be sent the day before class as a reminder. Please review the course policies page before registering for any classes. Please email [email protected] with any questions.
Sean Singer is the author of Discography (Yale University Press, 2002), winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, selected by W.S. Merwin, and the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America; Honey & Smoke (Eyewear Publishing, 2015); and Today in the Taxi (Tupelo Press, 2022) which won the 2022 National Jewish Book award. He runs a manuscript consultation service at www.seansingerpoetry.com