We’re offering a wide range of fantastic classes this semester. Here’s a peek at the first two, but visit our webpage to look ahead at the whole fall schedule.
With Kristen Nelson and Noah Saterstrom
Pictographs, hieroglyphs, manuscript illumination, and book illustration all represent different facets of the complex interconnectedness of text and image. In this workshop we’ll create, manipulate, and combine texts and images to create small collaborative works of art, each no larger than the palm of your hand.
We’ll explore the fascinating and tense dynamic between text and image, looking at text/image works by Anne Waldman, Max Ernst, and others. We’ll create texts and images through collaborative exercises, play with the role of text as ‘truth,’ blur the boundary between handwriting and drawing. We’ll both explore the nature of collaboration and focus on individual projects to follow through to completion as tiny collaborative art book objects.
Register online at https://www.uafoundation.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=891
With Pamela Uschuk
Throughout history, some poets have felt a moral or ethical imperative to bear witness in their poetry to events such as war, genocide, racism, corporate greed, dictatorial tyranny, and other acts of injustice.
In this week-long workshop, we will study ways in which several 20th and 21st century poets have borne witness. Participants will read poems by Langston Hughes, Pablo Neruda, Carolyn Forché, Charles Simic, Richard Jackson, Nazim Hikmet, César Vallejo, Anna Akhmatova, Joy Harjo, and others. Workshop participants will be given writing exercises at each workshop meeting to generate their own poems of witness on topics of their choosing.
Register online at https://www.uafoundation.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=891
Go to http://poetry.arizona.edu/calendar-of-eventsfor a quick-look calendar of all our fall events.
