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What the Poem Wants: Advanced Poetry
What the Poem Wants: Advanced Poetry Each poem is a new occasion and wants a fresh set of responses from us. We need to be nimble, alert and improvisational in our writing, playful in our seriousness. The DNA of old poems and habits is always in us, and familiar skills can sustain us, but it’s important to leave plenty of space for the newness of really fresh expression. In this workshop, let’s explore ways of detecting what this poem, none other, is asking of us, and how we can bring all of ourselves to it. Along the way, we’ll write together daily, discuss any questions as they arise, read favorite poems to one another, sing if the spirit moves us. Michael Dennis Browne (M.A., The University of Iowa) is the author of seven collections of poetry, most recently Things I Can’t Tell You (Carnegie Mellon University Press). Forthcoming in 2009 are What the Poem Wants: Prose on Poetry (Carnegie Mellon), a CD of To Be Certain of the Dawn (BIS Records), a post-Holocaust oratorio with music by Stephen Paulus, and performances of the work at Iowa Wesleyan and Drake University. He has taught since 1971 at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, where he is a Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of English.
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