"Gestures in Poetry: the Guess, the Jest, and the Coup de Grace."
In
this workshop, we will explore rhetorical gestures as well as physical
gestures. How do we add them (respectively) to our own poems and public
readings? How did the physical gestures of early humans propel the
evolution of spoken language? Participants will offer craft-based
feedback on one another's work, generate new drafts, read a variety of
poetic models, and listen to recordings.
Therese L. Broderick, MFA, MLS, has served the
community of writers in Albany, New York, for more than nineteen years in
numerous roles, including board officer, contest judge, classroom guest poet,
and facilitator for the Albany Area Poetry Chat monthly discussions. Her poems
have been published in many venues, both paper (Poet Lore) and digital (Barzakh);
and have received several awards, including an Intro Journals Project prize
from the Association of Writers & Writing Programs, and the Overall Winner
prize from The Poetry Project with Poetry Ireland. She is the author of four
chapbooks, the most recent of which, Green-Weak,
is available for free at https://redwolfjournal.wordpress.com.
Her first full-length collection, Breath
Debt: Poems, was published in 2018 and is available at http://www.pagepublishing.com/books/?book=breath-debt
Therese can be found on Twitter, Goodreads, and her WordPress blog entitled
Poet Apace. She is now on the Editorial Board of the journal Rockvale Review.
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