PSNY Virtual Workshop: Poems that Fly

An all-levels generative virtual workshop with poet Luciana Arbus-Scandiffio!

Have you ever read a poem that seemed to transform right in front of you? That you can’t wrap your head around? That seemed to (nearly) take flight? In this class, we’ll be looking at poems that ride on energy and surprise. Guided by the poet Dean Young’s mantra “we are making birds, not birdcages” we will study poems that contain a sense of alchemy– turning words into something alive. Poets discussed will likely include Diane Seuss, Kenneth Koch, Chelsey Minnis, Heather Christle, June Jordan, and Mark Leidner. A number of prompts will help us bring about our own wild poems.

About the Instructor: Luciana Arbus-Scandiffio was recently a Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Poetry Review, The Hopkins Review, Poetry Northwest, and Oxford Poetry. Luci has two lesbian moms and is originally from New Jersey.

**This workshop will take place on Zoom.**