Eros ≥ Poetry ? : A Generative Reading and Writing Workshop with Rebekah Smith
Eros ≥ Poetry ? : A Generative Reading and Writing Workshop with Rebekah Smith
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Saturdays, January 31–February 21 (4 Sessions) / Online via Zoom
Famously, Anne Carson wrote a whole book to try to understand eros’s draw, writing:
I would like to grasp why it is that these two activities, falling in love and coming to know, make me feel genuinely alive.
Less famously, Elouise Loftin wrote:
that i want to unveil
new moons and you
that i want to unveil
new moons with you
that i want to unveil
new moons
Reading, thinking, and writing with and between and beyond these words and these sounds and these writers, this generative workshop will consider where eros and falling in love come together or fall apart, how coming to know and writing poetry are intertwined, and what kinds of relations there might be between writing poetry and the unfurling of desire. We will read, write, discuss, and question: What might desire sound like? What are the written rhythms of eros? How do these sounds carry through and across languages?
Some folks we might read, think, and write with include: Anne Carson, Elouise Loftin, Erin Honeycutt, Frank Ocean, Rae Armantrout, tatiana nascimento, June Jordan, Blanca Varela, Laura Henriksen, C.P. Cavafy, Gillian Rose, and likely more.
Workshop Leader
Rebekah Smith
is a writer, translator, and editor with a PhD in Comparative Literature. She edits books at Ugly Duckling Presse, and makes small edition artist books and chapbooks with her side project, Johan Johan Editions. Her publications include One Woman Cult (*belladonna collaborative, 2024), The Sea by Victoria Cóccaro (translated from Spanish, DoubleCross, 2024), and Ova Completa by Susana Thénon (translated from Spanish, UDP, 2021). She was a 2024 NEA Literature in Translation Fellow.
Saturdays, January 31–February 21, 11am–1pm EST (4 Sessions)
Online via Zoom