Fine Arts Work Center In Provincetown

24Pearlstreet Workshops

Daisy Fried 4 Poets: Adaptation and Rejection as Technique Poetry November 21 to December 16, 2016 Tuition: $500 Class Size: 15 Session: fall Level: 4 week asynchronous workshop

What is creative influence and how can we best use it? The first week of this course we’ll read and discuss sets of poems from six different contemporary poets: Anne Carson, Ciaran Carson, Natalie Diaz, Yusef Komunyakaa, Thylias Moss and Alicia Ostriker. We’ll collectively identify each poet’s defining strategies, themes, attitudes and forms. For the workshop’s remaining three weeks, you’ll pick the four poets from this group who interest you most, writing towards and workshopping four finished poems: imitations, adaptations or—if necessary—intelligent rejections of those influences. Our goal is immersion followed by refinement of who you are as a poet after you’ve submitted yourself to a series of invigorating, conflicting influences.

Biography

Daisy Fried’s book of “versions and aversions” of the 19th C. French poet, Charles Baudelaire, will be published by Flood Editions in 2022. She is also the author of three other books of poems: My Brother is Getting Arrested Again, Women’s Poetry: Poems and Advice, and She Didn’t Mean to Do It. A past Guggenheim, Hodder and Pew Fellow in poetry, she is a member of the faculty of the Warren Wilson MFA Program for writers, and at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, where she lives.