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Poetry & Apocalypse Paul Guest
Poetry
December 11-15, 2023
Open to All
Tiered Tuition
Reserve My Spot This offering is not currently available for registration. Please check back or email Jennifer Jean at jjean@fawc.org for any questions.

About the Offering

ASYNCHRONOUS

How do we write poems about this moment, about right now, about global warming and walls
and guns and oceans filled with plastic? How do we balance the historic with the lyric, the
personal with the political? How can we make art from witness?

In this workshop we will read poems by Ada Limón, Terrance Hayes, Victoria Chang, and Mark
Doty, in addition to many others, and write and respond to poems that explore ruin and
reckoning.

Materials Needed

No specific materials needed for this offering.

About the Instructor/Moderator

Paul Guest is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Because Everything Is Terrible, and a memoir, One More Theory About Happiness. His writing has appeared in Poetry, The Paris Review, Tin House, Slate, New England Review, The Southern Review, The Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, and numerous other publications. A Guggenheim Fellow and Whiting Award winner, he lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Accessibility Information

Their work is regularly exhibited internationally and is in the permanent collections of over 60 museums. Over the past fifteen years, they have built a sustainable career as a visual artist and have extensive experience working with museums, galleries, universities and nonprofit organizations, publishers, and press outlets. In addition to their own creative work, they are passionate about sharing the professional knowledge they’ve acquired throughout their career with other artists.

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