Poetry
April 19 to May 14, 2021
Open to All
Tiered Tuition
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About the Offering
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS
Has it been hard for you to write in the past year or so? Me too—the blank page has gotten even more daunting than before. Let’s get to new poems another way. Many of us read translations or, ourselves, translate, because we love the original, and want to spread the word about a writer in another language. Or we translate because we think a writer hasn’t been served well by previous translators. But what if also serve ourselves and our own creative practice by borrowing, by adapting from other languages? In this course we’ll consider the basic translation issues (what do we care about most as we create a good poem in English out of a poem in another language? tone? imagery? meter and rhyme? diction? structure? thematic content? and what do we jettison to make a good poem in English?) But our main goal will be to create dynamic versions of old work that reflect our own 21st Century values, emotions, troubles, joys and idiom. You’ll leave class with 3-4 drafts of your own poem-adaptations—and perhaps with a way forward in hard times. You do not need to know another language. Literal and other translations will be supplied to those who want them; Google translate and a dictionary are central tools.
OPTIONAL LIVE ELEMENTS: We will hold an optional meet & greet at the beginning of class, and I’ll schedule zoom one-on-ones at the end of the session.
Materials Needed
No specific materials needed for this offering.
About the Instructor/Moderator
Daisy Fried is the author of four books of poetry: The Year the City Emptied, Women’s Poetry: Poems and Advice, My Brother is Getting Arrested Again, and She Didn’t Mean to Do It. She has been awarded Guggenheim, Hodder, and Pew Fellowships. She is an occasional poetry critic for the New York Times, Poetry Foundation and elsewhere; poetry editor for the journal Scoundrel Time; and a member of the faculty of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. She lives in Philadelphia.
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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