DEAD POETS WORKSHOP: MYSTIC POETS
This workshop is fully enrolled. MYSTIC POETS returns in February!
For January, blush presents the MYSTIC POETS edition our DEAD POETS WORKSHOP. In this online workshop-seminar we will read DEAD POETS. The texts provided will be a wide range of visionary poets, adopting a broadly defined understanding of the term ‘mysticism.’ Reading list includes Mirabai, Mina Loy, Rumi, Harry Crosby, H.D., Storm de Hirsch, Emily Dickinson, John Keats, & more. Students will submit poems for feedback on a weekly basis, with optional writing prompts also provided. We will put our writing in conversation with the DEAD to better understand why were are even writing poems in the first place. Class meets on Tuesdays in January.
4 weekly Tuesday meetings
January 7, 14, 21, 28.
6-8pm EST
meetings held online via Zoom
$50-150 sliding scale
Lead by blush editor Jon Ruseski
to enroll
email: blush.editors@gmail.com
subject: MYSTIC POETS
NEGATIVE CAPABILITY WORKSHOP
This workshop is fully enrolled.
“Negative Capability— I mean when a [person] is capable of being in a state of uncertainty without any irritable grasping after fact and reason.“ John Keats casually tossed this single sentence into an offhand letter to his brothers almost 200 years ago, and yet, to this day it remains as salient and vital a concept as ever for discussing poetics.
Attentive readers of b l u s h might rightly assume that we are not fans of heavy-handed didactic poetry. Rather Negative Capability is certainly one of our core values as editors, writers, readers, and, well, people. In this spirit, this workshop-seminar is designed to be a celebration and discussion of the concept.
This workshop will embrace Negative Capability as a framework for discussion and how to further advance and cultivate our individual poetic practices. We will read Keats’ letter, commentary on the letter, and some intersecting/ adjacent thoughts on poetics (Paul Valéry, Barbara Guest, Bernadette Mayer, Wallace Stevens) in order to more fully realize our individual poetic visions. Class meets on Thursdays in January.
4 weekly Thursday meetings
January 9, 16, 23, 30
6-8pm EST
meetings held online via Zoom
$50-150 sliding scale
Lead by blush editor Jon Ruseski
to enroll
email: blush.editors@gmail.com
subject: NEGATIVE CAPABILITY