FULL — LYING HOLDS THE PLEASURE / OF RUINING A FORM — Master Class with Elaine Kahn

Event Details: Saturday, February 22, 2020, 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm The Center (208 W 13th St, New York, NY 10011)

As the title indicates, this course will engage with two fundamental aspects of poetic writing: the pleasure of lying (enjoying the limits and instability of truth) and the ruined form (collapsed expectations, broken meter, voided resolution). Prior to class, students will receive a packet of poems by writers whose work demonstrates particular interest in these concerns, such as Kamau Brathwaite, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Jane Gregory and Julian Talamantez Brolaski. They will then be invited to submit a poem of their own, guided and informed by this reading, which we will workshop together as a class. Life will wake you up : )

This Master Class is now full. To be added to the waitlist, email Andrea at aak@poetryproject.org

Elaine Kahn

Elaine Kahn is the author of Romance or The End (Soft Skull, 2020) and Women in Public (City Lights Publishers, 2015). Her writing has appeared in Frieze, The Brooklyn Rail, jubilat, Poetry Foundation, Art Papers, and elsewhere. She received an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and teaches at the Poetry Field School. She lives in Los Angeles, California.