At Work in Sound and Vision with Dan Beachy-Quick

At Work in Sound and Vision: A Poetry Workshop with Dan Beachy-Quick

A poem contains multiple kinds of intelligence. Beneath the meanings of the words that make up a poem, other forms of meaning strive to be felt. This workshop will explore two of the most prominent of those alternate intelligences: musicality and image. Following the poet Louis Zukofsky’s sense, “Lower limit speech / Upper limit music,” we’ll seek ways, through readings and through in-class experiments, to re-awaken our ear to the musical intelligence undergirding language. Counterpart to the effort, we’ll also investigate the ways in which an image contains meaning so profound that it some can be considered poems themselves. The large effort will be — through the investigation in sound and vision — for each participant to leave with a poem demonstrating the type of sonic curiosity and visual thinking our hours will be devoted to exploring. To learn more, visit the event's Facebook page.

A poetry reading with Dan Beachy-Quick will take place the previous day on Friday, Oct. 26, 2018, at Changing Hands Phoenix at 7 p.m. To learn more about Dan's reading, you can visit the event page. 

To find other creative writing classes and workshops, visit http://piper.asu.edu/classes. 

Artwork: "All my body calls," Megan Canning

About Dan Beachy-Quick 

Dan Beachy-Quick is the author, most recently, of a collection of essays, fragments and poems, "Of Silence and Song" (Milkweed, 2017). He has written six books of poetry, "gentlessness," "Circle’s Apprentice," "North True South Bright," "Spell," "Mulberry" and "This Nest, Swift Passerine"; six chapbooks, "Shields & Shards & Stitches & Songs," "Apology for the Book of Creatures," "Overtakelesness," "Heroisms," "Canto" and "Mobius Crowns" (the latter two both written in collaboration with the poet Srikanth Reddy); a book of interlinked essays on Moby-Dick, "A Whaler’s Dictionary"; as well as a collection of essays, meditations and tales, "Wonderful Investigations." Reddy and Beachy-Quick’s collaboration has recently been released as a full-length collection, "Conversities," and he has also collaborated with the essayist and performance artist Matthew Goulish on "Work From Memory." In 2013, University of Iowa Press published a monograph on John Keats in their Muse Series edited by Robert D. Richardson titled "A Brighter Word Than Bright: Keats at Work," and Coffee House Press published his first novel, "An Impenetrable Screen of Purest Sky." He is a contributing editor for the journals A Public Space and West Branch. After graduating from the University of Denver, he attended the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. He has taught at Grinnell College and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and is currently teaching in the MFA Writing Program at Colorado State University. His work has been a winner of the Colorado Book Award and has been a finalist for the William Carlos Williams Prize and the PEN/USA Literary Award in Poetry. He is the recipient of a Lannan Foundation residency and taught as visiting faculty at the Iowa Writer’s Workshop in spring 2010. He was one of two Monfort Professors at CSU between 2013 and 2015, and his work has been supported by the Guggenheim Fellow and by a Creative Fellow of the Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard University.