Transcendent American poet Max Ritvo wrote that if the world outside a poet’s head is more interesting than the world inside their head, they might as well become a journalist. His point: it’s what’s inside the poet’s mind, what (or who) is hooting or singing or moaning or gagging inside the poet’s own totally unique psychic ecosystem that allows the poet access to a singular voice. In this workshop we’ll try various methods of popping under our own hoods and exploring our cognitive machinery (using things like meditation and bibliomancy), mining our discoveries for poetic language and imagery and more. Leaving the workshop, we’ll have generated drafts, jumping off points for new poems, and hopefully, if all goes well, better relationships with the little voices in our heads.

Friday, March 31, 2017
7:00pm – 9:00pm
Asian American Writers’ Workshop
112 West 27th Street, 6th Floor
New York, NY 10003

One session: Friday, March 31, 2017
Tuition: $25 per person
Class limit: 12 attendees
REGISTER HERE

Kaveh Akbar‘s poems appear recently or soon in The New Yorker, Poetry, APR, Ploughshares, PBS NewsHour, Tin House, and elsewhere. His debut full-length collection, Calling a Wolf a Wolf, will be published by Alice James Books in Fall 2017; he is also the author of the chapbook Portrait of the Alcoholic. A recipient of the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation and the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, Kaveh was born in Tehran, Iran, and is the Visiting Professor of Poetry at Purdue University.