Gossip Guys: Unlikely Conversations on (Male) Poets
Dates: March 3-March 30
Format: Online Workshop (asynchronous, more info)
Price: $299
Maureen Alsop and Josh Davis offer up, in this companion workshop to "Girl Talk," a series of dialogues on poets who infuriate, who inspire, and who happen to be men. These exchanges will veer from spilling the biographical tea, to speculations tinged with Tarot, to hard-and-fast, down-and-dirty banter on craft, on form, on literary history. Stars and supporting actors include: Reginald Shepherd, Thomas James, John Ashbery, Christopher Gilbert, as well as a few comehither cameos. Join Maureen and Josh as we take these boys to task and challenge them to earn our love and admiration.
*Painting “The Poor Poet” – Carl Spitzweg (1839) Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Dates: March 3-March 30
Format: Online Workshop (asynchronous, more info)
Price: $299
Maureen Alsop and Josh Davis offer up, in this companion workshop to "Girl Talk," a series of dialogues on poets who infuriate, who inspire, and who happen to be men. These exchanges will veer from spilling the biographical tea, to speculations tinged with Tarot, to hard-and-fast, down-and-dirty banter on craft, on form, on literary history. Stars and supporting actors include: Reginald Shepherd, Thomas James, John Ashbery, Christopher Gilbert, as well as a few comehither cameos. Join Maureen and Josh as we take these boys to task and challenge them to earn our love and admiration.
*Painting “The Poor Poet” – Carl Spitzweg (1839) Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Dates: March 3-March 30
Format: Online Workshop (asynchronous, more info)
Price: $299
Maureen Alsop and Josh Davis offer up, in this companion workshop to "Girl Talk," a series of dialogues on poets who infuriate, who inspire, and who happen to be men. These exchanges will veer from spilling the biographical tea, to speculations tinged with Tarot, to hard-and-fast, down-and-dirty banter on craft, on form, on literary history. Stars and supporting actors include: Reginald Shepherd, Thomas James, John Ashbery, Christopher Gilbert, as well as a few comehither cameos. Join Maureen and Josh as we take these boys to task and challenge them to earn our love and admiration.
*Painting “The Poor Poet” – Carl Spitzweg (1839) Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Joshua Davis is the author of Reversal Spells in Blue and Black (forthcoming from Seven Kitchens Press) and, with Allison Blevins, the co-author of Chorus for the Kill (Seven Kitchens Press) and fiery poppies bruising their own throats (forthcoming from Glass Lyre Press). He holds an MFA from Stonecoast at the University of Southern Maine, an MFA from the University of Mississippi, and an M.A. from Pittsburg State University. A former John and Renee Grisham fellow, he offers online workshops and private mentoring at The Poetry Barn. Recent poems have appeared in One Art, The Hunger, Glass: A Journal of Poetry. He is a doctoral candidate in Literature at Ohio University, and he teaches high school English near Tampa, Florida.
Maureen Alsop, Ph.D. is the recent author of Pyre (2021) Tender to Empress (2022), Arbor Vitae (2023) and a debut novel Today Yesterday After My Death (2024). Earlier books include Apparition Wren (Main Street Rag, 2007), Later, Knives & Trees (Negative Capability Press, 2014), Mantic (Augury Books, 2013), Mirror Inside Coffin (WordTech Editions, 2015) and several chapbooks including Luminal Equation in the collection Narwhal (Cannibal Press), the dream and the dream you spoke, and 12 Greatest Hits, Nightingale Habit and Origin of Stone. She is the winner of Harpur Palate's Milton Kessler Memorial Prize for Poetry and The Bitter Oleander’s Frances Locke Memorial Poetry Award. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including AGNI, Baltimore Review, Barrow Street, Berkeley Poetry Review, Bitter Oleander, Blackbird, Diode, Drunken Boat, Kenyon Review Online, Pank, Spinning Jenny, Baltimore Review, Pinch, Versaland Verse Daily, among others.
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