Poets House Workshop with North Fork Poet Miranda Beeson

Poets House, a library and meeting place which invites poets and the public to step into the living tradition of poetry, presents a remote six week workshop with North Fork Poet Miranda Beeson entitled “Writing the World Through Our Five Sense.” The workshop will be remote on Zoom for six Saturdays, January 25th through March 1st, from noon ’til 2pm. The course is $360 ($320 for Members).

“Writing the World Through Our Five Senses: No ideas but in things. This from William Carlos Williams. What did WCW mean? To illuminate ideas and emotions, we must first anchor them in the physical world. How do we do this? Simply said, over six weeks—the five senses will be our guides. Taste, Touch, Sound, Scent & Vision will prompt our poems. Sensory language creates images, and images in turn move toward meaning. What we hope for in every poem we read. A flash of revelation! This is a generative (& fun) workshop. We will read widely—& write a poem (from “sensational” prompts) for each of our sessions.” Says Beeson.

Miranda Beeson is the author of Wildlife (Spuyten Duyvil), as well as the chapbooks Ode to the Unexpected from novelist Peter Cameron’s Shrinking Violet Press, Catch & Release (Dancing Girl Press) and The Jones of It a recent finalist for the Tomaž Šalamun Prize. Her poems appear in numerous journals and anthologies including Barrow Street, The Southampton Review, The Best American Poetry, Typishly, and Melville House’s Poetry After 9-11: An Anthology of New York Poets. She has taught creative writing in school systems (K-12), and at Stony Brook University. As an editor, she works with poets on the creative arc of their manuscripts. She received her MFA from Stony Brook Southampton, and lives in New York City and the North Fork of Long Island.

For more information and to register, please visit: https://poetshouse.org/event/writing-the-world/ All are welcome, space is limited. A limited number of need-based scholarships are available. Please email support@poetshouse.org with any questions. For more information about Miranda Beeson, visit www.mirandabeeson.com