SEMINAR PROFILE

H23 -
Inner Life: Writing Poems That Know More Than You Do

Poem-making is a mysterious process engaging memory, observation, imagination, and the words that conceive them. In this seminar we will practice poems in a series of exercises designed to elicit pure language free from conventional constraints. By reading living poets and revered masters of form (such as C.K.Williams, Ellen Voigt, Lucille Clifton, Theodor Roethke, Elizabeth Bishop, and Rilke,) we will generate new writing, devise rough poems, and practice strategies for revision and craft.

Scholar:

Barbara Helfgott Hyett

Location:

Harvard Hillel

Dates:

11/13/2009, 11/20/2009

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H23 -	Inner Life: Writing Poems That Know More Than You Do

	Poem-making is a mysterious process engaging memory, observation, imagination, and the words that conceive them. In this seminar we will practice poems in a series of exercises designed to elicit pure language free from conventional constraints. By reading living poets and revered masters of form (such as C.K.Williams, Ellen Voigt, Lucille Clifton, Theodor Roethke, Elizabeth Bishop, and Rilke,) we will generate new writing, devise rough poems, and practice strategies for revision and craft.

		Scholar:	Barbara Helfgott Hyett
		Location:	Harvard Hillel
		Dates:	11/13/2009, 11/20/2009