A poetry class presented by the Carnegie Center for Learning & Literacy and Accents Publishing.

“It is difficult

to get the news from poems

yet men die miserably every day

for lack

of what is found there.”

–William Carlos Williams, “Asphodel that Greeny Flower”

Poetry is news that stays new, Ezra Pound said. What is it of our own lives that will stay new? How do we give voice to this moment in time? It is not so much the what as it is the how of our poems—the line and its mystery, our images and diction, the unexpected metaphor—that cause poems to remain fresh. In this session, we will consider how poems convey both the timely and the timeless. Using prompts, we will explore how we might craft poems that stay new, poems to surprise a future reader with a sense of our particular time.

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