Dear World: The Lively Art of Writing Letter Poems; A Workshop with Alice George
Date: Sat. April 26, 2008
Time: 10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Location:
Harold Washington Library Center
Other
400 S. State Street
60605
About this event:
Epistolary poems have a long history. Horace wrote famous verse epistles, and the form continues to be used today by poets including Richard Hugo, James Tate, and Adrienne Rich. Participants will read some lively examples together, explore the possibilities and constraints of this form, and then create letter poems.
Alice George is a poet, teacher, and co-editor of RHINO, an award-winning poetry magazine based in Evanston. She has been the recepient of fellowships from the Illinois Arts Council and the Ragdale Foundation. Her poems have appeared in such publications as Faultline, Sentence, Diagram, Denver Quarterly and American Literary Review and anthologized in Saints of Hysteria: A Half-Century of Collaborative American Poetry and Where We Live: Illinois Poets.
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