This workshop will focus on how autobiography functions as a method of mediating and revivifying past events that hover in the unconscious and surface in the writing process. Through writing prompts, and mini-lectures on poetic craft and history of the genre, participants will learn how the very construction of the poem is a means to contain—and often transform—subjective material so that self-revelation can take place. Students of all levels are invited—no previous poetry experience required. Note: No meeting on November 30.
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About Judith Harris
Judith Harris is the author of three poetry books, Atonement, The Bad Secret, and Night Garden (LSU and Tiger Bark) and two critical books on poetry and psychoanalysis Signifying Pain: Constructing and Healing the Self through Writing and The Poetry of Loss: Romantic and Contemporary Elegies (SUNY Press, Routledge Press) Her poems have appeared in The Nation, The Atlantic, The New Republic, The Hudson Review, Ploughshares, North American Review, Image, Alaska Quarterly Review, Literary Matters, Poetry East, Terrain, “American Life in Poetry,” American Academy of Poets Poem-a-day, Poetry Foundation’s Poem of the Day, NPR and Verse Daily. Her articles have appeared in AWP Chronicle, The British Journal of Psychoanalysis, the American Journal of Psychoanalysis, The Washingtonian, The Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis, Midwest Quarterly, and Green Mountains Review.
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