Fun, Fearlessness & Fireworks — Elinor Nauen
TUESDAYS AT 7PM / BEGINS NOVEMBER 8th / 5 SESSIONS

In this 5-week workshop we’ll consider: desire, longing and language; finding the line between confession and embarrassment, between personality and the shrink; how to be happy off the cutting edge; how form can propel your poems, and finding and inventing the forms and words you need; making your bread as salty as you want (cuz no one’s buying it); using the dictionary; and poets O’Hara, Koch, Ted Berrigan, Timmons, Myles, Byron, Henderson, Padgett, Violi, Michael Gizzi, the Williams twins (Hank & William Carlos), Chaucer and others.

Elinor Nauen co-hosts the Prose Pros reading series in New York City. She has written or edited Cars and Other Poems; American Guys; Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend: Women Writers on Baseball; Ladies, Start Your Engines: Women Writers on Cars and the Road, and several chapbooks. So Late into the Night, a book-length poem in ottava rima, came out in Spring 2011 from Rain Mountain Press.