Hi Folks,
There are a few slots left in the critical seminar I will be running at the West Chester Poetry Conference. In the critical seminar, each participant will present a paper and/or their creative work having to do with the topic, so of course for academics this can be used for professional travel. I'll be presenting the group with a set of readings and writing prompts that I used to teach a course on the topic and that they can adopt to their own purposes for writing workshops, critical classes, or for their own creative work. Here's the description and the link:
https://www.wcupa.edu/_academics/sch...onference.aspx
At the conference, Barnstone will conduct a Critical Seminar entitled The Documentary Method: History Poems, Found Poems, Centos, Ekphrastic Poems, and the Dramatic Monologue. The description: In this seminar we will explore the use of the documentary method of creating poems, a technique that Marjorie Perloff has called (tongue in cheek) “uncreative writing.” We will read a wide variety of 20th and 21st century poets who use translation, transformation and adaptation techniques in poetry writing, working with found texts, manipulating other texts through experimental methods, and/or constructing poems based on historical research (working from oral histories, diaries, letters, interviews, trial transcripts, and so on). Also, we will explore the practice of the dramatic monologue by classic and contemporary poets, with hopes of putting these two techniques together. Readings include: blackout poetry (Austin Kleon); centos (Maryann Corbett, Catherine Chandler, Debra San and R.S. Gwynn); ekphrastic poetry (Kim Addonizio, Sharon Olds, William Carlos Williams, W.H. Auden); headline poetry (Julius Lester, Howard Nemerov); dramatic monologue (Robert Hayden, Ai, Tom Waits); found poetry (William Carlos Williams, Kenneth Goldsmith, Hart Seely, H.L. Hix, Charles Reznikoff, Kwame Dawes, Patricia Smith, Geoffrey Brock, Amin Esmailpour); and essays on the documentary method (Marjorie Perloff, Kenneth Goldsmith, Bill Nichols, Pepita Ferrari, and Martin Earl). Though this is a critical seminar, students will be provided with a slate of writing prompts based on the readings.
West Chester Critical Seminar on writing through "The Documentary Method"
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