When: Monday, December 2
6:00–8:00 PM Eastern / 3:00–5:00 PM Pacific
Cost: $39
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“Lists are curious things,” writes Gregory Orr, in “Some Things I Like About Lists.” “They might seem a bit uncool as a structuring principle for a poem, but it’s easy enough to give them an edge: All you have to do is make your list a bit challenging to yourself, emotionally and imaginatively.” How do we do that if a list is designed to simplify and ease our lives, to bring order to our mental and emotional chaos? How do we turn a brain dump into literary art that does more than record what we already know or can know?
We’ll examine some well-made list poems (not necessarily numbered!) to discern how they succeed as poetry, and apply the learning toward generating and/or reshaping our own poems as lists.