Class Description: Writing Personas with Fred D’Aguiar (virtual workshop)

We write as readers and listeners; we read as writers, as doers and those done, as watchers and seekers, and a combination of all of these. Let’s cultivate our writing persona(s). Let’s be makers and movers. Participants in this workshop will read/hear exemplars of poetic form, talk about them, and write a poem each week. The format entails reading and commenting on each other’s work, to promote revision for a final portfolio of ten poems that may be written &/or spoken &/or recorded (with or without music) by each participant. We will kick off each session with a poem, drawn from history or more recent examples, before we launch into reading and discussion.