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Larry Eigner workshop with Jennifer Bartlett

November 19, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

$75
Four Thursdays
7-9:00 pm EST
November 19, 26,
December 3, 10
$75.00
7 person min. enrollment
[the] birds dreamed hungry:
a poetry workshop on Larry Eigner
and Black Mountain Poetry
Workshop with Jennifer Bartlett & George Hart
This workshop will focus on the work and life of Larry Eigner and his relationship with Gloucester poets, Vincent Ferrini and Charles Olson. While he is most often associated with the Black Mountain College poets, Eigner, who had severe cerebral palsy, has also been read as an important influence on disability poetics, as well as eco-poetics and the language poets. His work is formally and syntactically marked by the breath-based patterns described in Charles Olson’s “Projective Verse,” and his poems also reflect William Carlos Williams’ “no idea but in things.”

Jennifer Bartlett was born in the San Francisco Bay Area and educated at the University of New Mexico, Vermont College, and Brooklyn College. She is the author of Derivative of the Moving Image (UNM Press 2007), (a) lullaby without any music (Chax 2012), and Autobiography/Anti-Autobiography (Theenk 2014). Bartlett also co-edited, with Sheila Black and Michael Northen, Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability. Bartlett has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Fund for Poetry, and the Dodd Research Center at the University of Connecticut. Bartlett has taught poetry and disability awareness at Willie Mae Rock Camp, United Cerebral Palsy, the MS Society, and New York Public Schools. She has also given recent lectures and readings at St. Marks Poetry Project, Hunter CUNY, the Dodge Poetry Festival, School for the Visual Arts, Brown University and Hamilton College.

To save your space email: Eileen@gloucesterwriters.org

Details

Date:
November 19, 2020
Time:
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Cost:
$75
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