Speculative Poetry: Writing Past the Apocalypse
Dates: June 2- 29 (Four weeks)
Format: Online Workshop (Asynchronous, more info)
In times of great anxiety, the images and metaphors of our language and writing often focus on the end of days. What’s left after the apocalypse? Binary codes, crickets, holograms, hope, tin horses, radioactive wolves, zombies?
Since the age of HG Wells, writers have turned to dystopian narratives and imagery in order to make social commentary and come to terms with difficult political atmospheres and at-risk natural environments. From social structure to deep space, contemporary poets have contributed to the genre with poems that speculate on what it looks like to survive after the proverbial “other shoe” drops.
In this four-week generative course, we will study poems in the apocalyptic canon, including works by poets including sam sax, Maggie Smith, Jeannine Hall Gailey, Jamaal May, and Burlee Vang, and dream into the space we need to write our own vision for the end-of-the-world.
Image: “An old, rusty bus remains.,” Photo by Ani Adigyozalyan , Haghpat, Armenia.
Dates: June 2- 29 (Four weeks)
Format: Online Workshop (Asynchronous, more info)
In times of great anxiety, the images and metaphors of our language and writing often focus on the end of days. What’s left after the apocalypse? Binary codes, crickets, holograms, hope, tin horses, radioactive wolves, zombies?
Since the age of HG Wells, writers have turned to dystopian narratives and imagery in order to make social commentary and come to terms with difficult political atmospheres and at-risk natural environments. From social structure to deep space, contemporary poets have contributed to the genre with poems that speculate on what it looks like to survive after the proverbial “other shoe” drops.
In this four-week generative course, we will study poems in the apocalyptic canon, including works by poets including sam sax, Maggie Smith, Jeannine Hall Gailey, Jamaal May, and Burlee Vang, and dream into the space we need to write our own vision for the end-of-the-world.
Image: “An old, rusty bus remains.,” Photo by Ani Adigyozalyan , Haghpat, Armenia.
Dates: June 2- 29 (Four weeks)
Format: Online Workshop (Asynchronous, more info)
In times of great anxiety, the images and metaphors of our language and writing often focus on the end of days. What’s left after the apocalypse? Binary codes, crickets, holograms, hope, tin horses, radioactive wolves, zombies?
Since the age of HG Wells, writers have turned to dystopian narratives and imagery in order to make social commentary and come to terms with difficult political atmospheres and at-risk natural environments. From social structure to deep space, contemporary poets have contributed to the genre with poems that speculate on what it looks like to survive after the proverbial “other shoe” drops.
In this four-week generative course, we will study poems in the apocalyptic canon, including works by poets including sam sax, Maggie Smith, Jeannine Hall Gailey, Jamaal May, and Burlee Vang, and dream into the space we need to write our own vision for the end-of-the-world.
Image: “An old, rusty bus remains.,” Photo by Ani Adigyozalyan , Haghpat, Armenia.
