• April 4, 2024
          Everybody Reads 2024: Gabrielle Zevin
          April 8, 2024
          2024 Oregon Book Awards Ceremony
          April 18, 2024
          Aimee Nezhukumatathil: Portland Arts & Lectures 2023/24
  • Box Office
Writers

Adam Fitzgerald Offers Poetry Classes in July

Adam Fitzgerald is a New York City based poet, editor and teacher. He is founding editor of the poetry journal Maggy, and the small artisan press Monk Books. He teaches creative writing at Rutgers University and The New School. His debut collection of poetry, The Late Parade, was published by W.W. Norton’s Liveright imprint in July 2013.  John Ashbery has to say about the book, ““In The Late Parade, Adam Fitzgerald is a master of defeating expectations so as to fulfill them farther along. One has the feeling of climbing higher along a path that is giving way under one’s feet, in pursuit always of ‘a waltz on our breath.’ Yet the rhythmic and consonant commotion of these poems ends in joy. This is a dazzling debut.” 

Adam will be in Portland on Saturday, July 20th, and  will be offering two classes at Literary Arts:
Grand Theft Poetry: A Generative Workshop
Saturday, July 20, 9:00 to noon
Tuition: $75
This is a generative workshop. Students will explore various literary and extra-literary ways by which poetry arrives, sometimes in the form of a poem, sometimes through poetry’s mutated siblings: prose, fragments, notes or inventories to be quarried for future poem-making.”
Open to students at all levels. Register at https://literary-arts.org/product/grand-theft-poetry-a-generative-workshop/ or contact Susan Denning for more information.
The Arc of the Finished Poem: A Master Class
Saturday, July 20, 1:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Tuition: $150
Limited to 10 students
 Students in this master class will discuss how we “finish” poems: some rely on perfecting, some abandon, some revisit and mutilate for later. Students will also discuss the prospects of publication, submissions and editorial involvement therein.”  Students  will submit a manuscript of 4-5 poems before the first class meeting, which Adam will read and prepare comments on before the class meets. These student manuscripts will be the basis for class discussion.
Register at https://literary-arts.org/product/grand-theft-poetry-a-generative-workshop/ or contact Susan Denning for more information.
Also on Saturday at 7:00 p.m, Adam Fitzgerald and Mary Szybist will read and discuss their work. The reading is free and open to the public and takes place at Literary Arts.
 

Related Posts