UPCOMING WORKSHOPS

History: Our Superlative Muse
New York City Workshop with Myronn Hardy
Mondays, March 24 - June 9, 2008
Place: Manhattan site to be announced

Workshop Description
Participants will use history to develop “traditional” as well as “experimental” stanzas. Each class will begin with an exercise where poets are prompted into a past landscape from which to create new work. They will examine work by Thylias Moss, Jorge Luis Borges, Jay Wright and Lucille Clifton that exemplifies the breadth and deftness history can induce. For added inspiration, one session will be a visit to a New York City historical site. The final session, a reading by participants, is free and open to the public. Language will stir, verses emerge. This is the time to explore, re-imagine collective historic fissures, amnesia, all of that space ready to be filled.

Myronn Hardy
Photo Credit: Gerald Cyrus

A teacher of English at The College of New Rochelle, Myronn Hardy is the author of two collections of poems. Approaching the Center was selected by Cornelius Eady for a PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award. His The Headless Saints is forthcoming from New Issues Press in March 2008. Martín Espada has called him “a poet of the world, universal in the truest sense, [who] brings exquisite poetic diction and a gift for the image to the plazas of Havana, the villages of Madagascar, a tin schoolhouse in Soweto, an ancient wall in Rome scarred with racist graffiti. . . Hardy is sensitive to suffering and to defiance of suffering all around him.”

Eligibilty
African American adults not presently enrolled in degree granting programs. Priority will be given to residents of New York City’s five boroughs and applicants who have participated in fewer than three Cave Canem workshops.

Deadline to Submit
February 29, 2008
Note: A postmark date of February 29 will not suffice.

Application Guidelines
Post, e-mail or hand deliver two copies of no more than five pages of poems, written in any style, and one or two sentences about what you plan to accomplish in the workshop. Include contact information on every page: name, telephone number and postal & e-mail addresses. Deliver to:

NYC Workshop
Cave Canem Foundation
584 Broadway, Suite 508
New York, New York 10012
www.cavecanempoets.org
dantemicheaux@ccpoets.org

Notification
March 7, 2008, by telephone or e-mail.

As of January 10, 2008, this program is supported, in part, by public funds from the


New York City Department of Cultural Affairs

and the


New York State Council on the Arts.

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