Chromatic Poetics: Reading & Writing in Color
Course Dates: Monday, April 7 to Monday, May 20 (6 weeks)
Format: Hybrid (Asynchronous with three two-hour Zoom meetings)
While we think of visual artists as being mesmerized by colors--Picasso's blue period, for instance, or Van Gogh's vibrant sunflowers--writers can also turn to color as a muse.
In this six-week reading and writing course, we'll read and discuss three texts devoted to color: Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson, Bluets by Maggie Nelson, and Green Green Green by Gillian Osborne.
Between readings, you'll have an opportunity to draft and share work devoted to a color of your choice. Just as these authors do, you'll be invited to experiment with hybridity, weaving in elements of fiction and/or creative nonfiction to your poetic work.
Synchronous Zoom meetings on the following Saturdays from10am-noon CDT:
April 12 (Autobiography of Red), April 26 (Bluets), and May 10th, (Green Green Green).
Course Dates: Monday, April 7 to Monday, May 20 (6 weeks)
Format: Hybrid (Asynchronous with three two-hour Zoom meetings)
While we think of visual artists as being mesmerized by colors--Picasso's blue period, for instance, or Van Gogh's vibrant sunflowers--writers can also turn to color as a muse.
In this six-week reading and writing course, we'll read and discuss three texts devoted to color: Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson, Bluets by Maggie Nelson, and Green Green Green by Gillian Osborne.
Between readings, you'll have an opportunity to draft and share work devoted to a color of your choice. Just as these authors do, you'll be invited to experiment with hybridity, weaving in elements of fiction and/or creative nonfiction to your poetic work.
Synchronous Zoom meetings on the following Saturdays from10am-noon CDT:
April 12 (Autobiography of Red), April 26 (Bluets), and May 10th, (Green Green Green).
Course Dates: Monday, April 7 to Monday, May 20 (6 weeks)
Format: Hybrid (Asynchronous with three two-hour Zoom meetings)
While we think of visual artists as being mesmerized by colors--Picasso's blue period, for instance, or Van Gogh's vibrant sunflowers--writers can also turn to color as a muse.
In this six-week reading and writing course, we'll read and discuss three texts devoted to color: Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson, Bluets by Maggie Nelson, and Green Green Green by Gillian Osborne.
Between readings, you'll have an opportunity to draft and share work devoted to a color of your choice. Just as these authors do, you'll be invited to experiment with hybridity, weaving in elements of fiction and/or creative nonfiction to your poetic work.
Synchronous Zoom meetings on the following Saturdays from10am-noon CDT:
April 12 (Autobiography of Red), April 26 (Bluets), and May 10th, (Green Green Green).
Teaching Artist
Amie Whittemore
Amie Whittemore (she/her) is the author of the poetry collections Glass Harvest (Autumn House Press), Star-tent: A Triptych (Tolsun Books) and Nest of Matches (Autumn House Press, 2024). She was the 2020-2021 Poet Laureate of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow. She teaches creative writing at Eastern Illinois University and directs MTSU Write, a from-home creative writing mentorship program.
