Saturday, January 24, 3–6pm (1-day seminar) / In-person at the UDP studio

Corresponding with the work of Lydia Davis, Alice Notley, John Wieners, and Cedar Sigo, this seminar operates under the aegis of this guiding quote from Cedar:

“I think of editing like musical arrangement. You know those old jazz records that would say ‘a song by Duke Ellington, arrangements by Billy Strayhorn.’ And I’d be like, ‘What are arrangements? How would the band sound if the song hadn’t been arranged?’ I think that’s what lazy poetry is. It’s songs that haven’t gone through the arrangement process. Like, now the piano plays. Now the clarinets play. It’s all about overlaying one with the other, because that’s how you create friction. Not many poets know how to do it. People are expressing themselves, sure. But poetry is more than that.” (Guernica Mag, 2018.)

Students should bring work to edit in class.