Starts June 23

Registration: 
$150/$120 (members)

Sessions:

Session 1: June 23, 6:00–7:00 p.m. ET
Session 2: June 30, 6:00–7:00 p.m. ET
Session 3: July 7, 6:00–7:00 p.m. ET

This three-part seminar is a deep dive into queer and trans poetry that utilizes the line and line break—not as obligation but as opportunity. In this opportunity we will find syntactical derangement, transgressions of sense and breath, fits of tension, seemingly necessary caesurae, and more. If the line and how it breaks is like a voice in the poem, in what register does it speak? To be queer, to act on queer desire, and “to queer” are often haphazardly conflated. In our discussions, we will make distinctions. Not all queer poetry has queer sentences. Or queer pauses. To study these elements, whether there is queer content or not, brings us into a closer collaboration with the poem. As readers. And writers.

Class meets from 6:00–7:00 p.m. ET on Tuesdays, June 23, June 30, and July 7. Course materials can be found online or purchased at the links below.

Session Content:

Session One: Here is the Sweet Hand (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020), by francine j. harris 
Session Two: Of Mongrelitude (Wave Books, 2017) by Julian Talamantez Brolaski
Session Three: Indecency (Coffee House Press, 2018) by Justin Phillip Reed

Additionally, we will read various poems by Eileen Myles and Ronaldo V. Wilson.

This live, virtual course is structured to encourage active participation. Registrants will receive Zoom links a week before each session, a day prior to each session, and the morning of each session. All recordings will be made available within forty-eight hours of a session. All recordings and class materials will remain available for thirty days after the final session 

Scholarship applications must be submitted by Tuesday, June 16, at 5 p.m. ET. 

For information on how to register, how to receive the member discount, how to apply for a scholarship, how to access recordings and course materials, and more, please visit our FAQ page.