Writing and Revising the Sensuous Poem
ATTENTION!
The first price increase on Gate Passes is on Wednesday, March 4! Purchase your tickets by Tuesday, March 3 to get the current and lowest rate.
The first price increase on Gate Passes is on Wednesday, March 4! Purchase your tickets by Tuesday, March 3 to get the current and lowest rate.
Description
Instructor
Poetry becomes sensuous as opposed to sensual when a writer engages a reader’s senses through attentive use of vivid and tactile imagery, a compelling auditory texture, evocative language, and thoughtful poetic architecture, thereby allowing abstract ideas to feel tangible and creating an immersive sensory experience that encourages readers to make powerful emotional connections to poems. In this flexible workshop, we will focus on ways poets draft and revise poems toward sensuousness and intimacy between readers and poets.
John Hoppenthaler
John Hoppenthaler’s books of poetry are Night Wing Over Metropolitan Area, Domestic Garden, Anticipate the Coming Reservoir, and Lives of Water, all with Carnegie Mellon UP. He has co-edited a volume of essays on the poetry of Jean Valentine, This-World Company (U of Michigan P). A Professor of English at East Carolina University, his poetry appears in Ploughshares, Virginia Quarterly Review, TriQuarterly, Southern Review, Poetry Northwest, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and many other journals and anthologies.