The Conscious Poem with Kindall Gant
The Conscious Poem with Kindall Gant
$75.00
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Saturday, June 20, 3–6pm (1-day seminar) / In-person at the UDP studio
This workshop invites poets to write into the question of how and why poems are made. Treating language itself as both subject and medium, participants will examine poems that reflect on craft, voice, form, and the art of writing poetry, spending time with work by Omotara James, Tyre Daye, Rio Cortez, Danez Smith, and others. Participants will then engage in guided generative writing that asks them to articulate their own poetic values: what their poems owe, what they resist, and what they risk through metaphor, directives, refusals, and experimentation.
Workshop Leader
Kindall Gant
is a Black femme interdisciplinary poet and New Orleans native based in Brooklyn. She experiments with visual storytelling as liberation bringing poems into conversation with expressive forms like film, visual art, music and photography. They have received support from Cave Canem, the Poetry Foundation, MASS MoCA, the Saltonstall Foundation, the Watering Hole, Studio Museum in Harlem, the Guggenheim, and Ma’s House among other arts institutions. Her poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net and appears in Seedlings, TORCH, 1619 Speaks, Brooklyn Poets, The Poetry Society of New York’s Milk Press, and Obsidian. Their book The Harlem Table is forthcoming from Phaidon.