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The Prose Poem with Sean Singer (via Zoom)

November 10 @ 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm

$130.00
In 1855, Charles Baudelaire dreamed of a form that could express the modern city. He wanted to be free of his subjectivity, to get clarity about his disgust and his melancholy which, like the spleen, arises out of nothing. A prose poem is a deliberate choice to emphasize and enhance subject matter that purposefully deals with contradiction and tension. The prose poem deals with perception differently from verse in its deliberate lens on the ambivalent. It uses brevity and compression without line breaks, but maintains the passionate syntax, intensity, and compactness of lyric poems.
This course will focus on many examples of the prose poem, discover its function, limitations, possibilities, and will allow students to work on their own prosepoems. Readings will include: Charles Baudelaire, Russell Edson, Muriel Rukeyser, Gary Young, Osama Alomar, Lydia Davis, Tory Dent, Charles Simic, Peggy Shumaker, Friederike Mayröcker, and Zbigniew Herbert.

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

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The Prose Poem (Sean Singer)
$ 130.00
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Details

Date:
November 10
Time:
12:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Cost:
$130.00
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Venue

Hudson Valley Writers Center
Philipse Manor Station
Sleepy Hollow, NY 10591 United States
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Phone
914.332.5953
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HVWC
Phone
914.332.5953
Email
ask@writerscenter.org
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