A Deeper Image with Joshua Marie Wilkinson
A Deeper Image: A Poetry Workshop with Joshua Marie Wilkinson
In this course, students are invited to develop an acute awareness of their senses in order to write more visceral, striking poems. We will discuss examples, contemporary and ancient, to initiate a practice that draws on figurative language, synesthesia and the disavowed parts of self to plunge beneath the bland methods that tend to preempt or deplete many poems of our era. Our watchwords will be "conflict," "obstacle," "desire," and "contradiction" that we may hone a fuller relationship with language that eschews the topical, the merely competent and which instead dislodges a poem more knowing, uncanny and authentic to the poet. You will be asked to consider your dreams, fears, wishes, conflicts, desires and paradoxes. Therein lie the worlds that only unforgettable art grasps.
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Original image credit: "Computed Tomography of Human Brain" by Mikael Häggström, Uppsala University Hospital
About Joshua Marie Wilkinson
Joshua Marie Wilkinson is the author of eight books of poetry, including "Meadow Slasher" (Black Ocean, 2017). A professor in the University of Arizona's MFA program in creative writing, he is the founding editor of The Volta, a journal of poetry, and Letter Machine Editions, a small press that publishes Fred Moten, Alice Notley, Brandon Shimoda, John Yau and many others. He lives with the writer Lisa Wells in Tucson and Seattle.