Visual Poetry (and Prose) sounds like the most fun, & eye opening too)…
Doug
On Apr 23, 2015, at 4:57 AM, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> . Each student will generate a beautiful, seemingly impenetrable question or
> choose a koan (paradoxical statement) to explore through.
> Ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> And how come you get 10% off???
> P concerned koaned conned
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> Sent: 22 April 2015 20:48
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> Subject: which of these classes at Hugo House Seattle should I sign up for?
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> NOTE: The prices you see on the class pages have already been discounted 10
> percent from their original prices. No need to enter a discount code.
>
> Erasure Poems: This Vanishing is Illuminating Pausing our usual vocabularies
> in favor of a giddy, intuitive stumbling, we'll make new poems by erasing,
> obscuring, and masking old text. Each student will generate a beautiful,
> seemingly impenetrable question or choose a koan (paradoxical statement) to
> explore through.
> Course Type: 2 Day | Instructor: Samar Abulhassan
> REGISTER
> Start Date: 4/25/2015 - 1:00 PM
> Visual Poetry (and Prose)
> Language can live a very different sort of life when it exists with, or in,
> a visual-arts realm. A few examples from such leading practitioners as Tom
> Phillips, Bianca Stone, and John Ashbery will be presented to jump-start
> your imagination.
> Course Type: 1 Day | Instructor: Nance Van Winckel
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> Start Date: 5/2/2015 - 1:00 PM
> Stealing, Sampling, Absconding
> We'll spend the first class playing with appropriated texts, investigating
> and engaging in the practice of "uncreative writing." Then we'll turn our
> attention to homage, imitation, and parody, imbuing our poems with the
> talents and twitches of writers such as.
> Course Type: 6 Week | Instructor: Martha Silano
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> Start Date: 5/4/2015 - 10:00 AM
> Taking a Turn: What Happens When a Poem Shifts?
> The sonnet contains a volta: a characteristic turn in its middle where the
> poem's argument noticeably shifts. But is it possible every poem, whether
> free or formal verse, contains a volta of some kind? What power do these
> turns have.
> Course Type: 6 Week | Instructor: Sierra Nelson
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> Start Date: 5/5/2015 - 7:00 PM
> Poetics of Objects
> William Carlos Williams famously coined the phrase "No ideas but in things"
> in the 1927 version of his poem "Paterson." At the same time, in France,
> Francis Ponge was working hard at working hard, taking this credo to heart
> and.
> Course Type: 6 Week | Instructor: Kary Wayson
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> Start Date: 5/5/2015 - 7:10 PM
> Intro to Poetry: Poems from the Everyday This class serves as an
> introduction to poetry writing, combining in-class exercises, take-home
> assignments, and discussion of a wide range of poems. We'll look at the
> intersection of poetry and the everyday as a means for generating our own
> poems;.
> Course Type: 6 Week | Instructor: Bill Carty
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> Start Date: 5/6/2015 - 6:00 PM
> Poets' Companions: Creating and Critiquing Together
> We will read and discuss poems by modern and contemporary writers, critique
> each other's poems in process, and use prompts to encourage new writing. We
> will write a new poem each week in response to exercises and poems that
> inspire. Course Type: 6 Week | Instructor: Carolyne Wright
> Start Date: 5/6/2015 - 5:00 PM
> Sentences vs. Poems
> Sentences can be thought of as short, short, short stories. In all good
> poems, there is a tension between them and a poem's form. Think of the
> sentence sounds and speech rhythms of Walt Whitman's and C.K. Williams'
> long, loping. Course Type: 6 Week | Instructor: Emily Warne
> Master Class: The Hidden Architecture of the Poem All poems have a
> structure, even free-verse poems that seem to range around with no apparent
> form. Bring three new poems you're struggling to complete - drafts that just
> won't seem to fall into place - and we'll bring out.
> Course Type: 1 Day | Instructor: Dorianne Laux
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> Start Date: 5/9/2015 - 1:00 PM
> This class is full
> Imaginary Gardens with Real Toads: Using Imagery in Poems How can we create
> an image to encapsulate an idea, an emotion, a state of mind? We will
> explore the power of imagery as a means of crystallizing an idea. We will
> seek out and sift through the visual material.
> Course Type: 2 Day | Instructor: Jane Wong
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> Start Date: 5/16/2015 - 1:00 PM
> Doing Little Writing
> We will discuss the fact-yes, fact-that about 90% of our prose and poetry
> will be better if we can shorten it during the revision process. Leaning on
> the experience of examining tens of thousands of essays, short stories, and
> poems during.
> Course Type: 1 Day | Instructor: Stephen Corey
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> Start Date: 6/1/2015 - 10:00 AM
Douglas Barbour
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Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuation 2 (UofAPress).
Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
There is no life that does not rise
melodic from scales of the marvelous.
To which our grief refers.
Robert Duncan.
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