Local Muses: The Poetry of Place

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Familiar places hold vast amounts of information, layers of echoes, memories, and presences that can deepen a poem and bring it into conversation with the living communities that surround us. In this flexible workshop, we’ll explore poetic techniques for evoking place through generative prompts and examples. Participants can workshop a finished poem or something they create during the week. All are welcome, including those interested in applying what they learn to other genres, hybrid work, or lyric essays.
Larua Marris

Laura Marris is an essayist, poet, and translator. Her work has appeared in The Kenyon ReviewThe BelieverHarper’sThe New York Times, The Paris Review Daily, The Yale ReviewWords Without Borders, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships and grants from MacDowell, a Katharine Bakeless Fellowship from the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, and the Robert B. Silvers Foundation. Her translations include Albert Camus’s The Plague, Paol Keineg’s Triste Tristan (co-translated with Rosmarie Waldrop), and To Live Is to Resist, a biography of Antonio Gramsci. Her work has been shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize, the Scott Moncrieff Prize, and the French-American Foundation Translation Prize. Her first book, The Age of Loneliness, was published by Graywolf 2024. She teaches creative writing at the University at Buffalo. 

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Week 8 - Local Muses: The Poetry of Place Week 8 | Aug 17 - Aug 21
Monday, Wednesday, Friday
8:30 am - 10:30 am
Literary Arts Center at Alumni Hall Poetry Room
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