THE POET LIFE
Ages 16-29
Fall 2024, Online
Knowledge requires time, effort, and attention. If we want to know more about the physical world, we conduct scientific experiments. If we want to know about logic and meaning, we study philosophy. To know more about ourselves and what we need, poetry can show us the way. In this remote writing workshop, student fellows will discuss a wide range of topics related to the universally human art of poetry, including poetic form, the role of voice in poetry, the ways in which poetry can reveal the truth within us, the communicative power of verse, and how poetic methods transfer to other art forms. As a group, fellows will read and discuss poems by classic and contemporary poets as examples. Each fellow will create a portfolio of polished poems, and their work will be shared on the program website and through a public exhibition. Limited to 12 student fellows.
Somer Greer is a writer and photographer who lived in Baltimore for close to a decade, working as a writing instructor at Johns Hopkins University and other schools in the Mid-Atlantic. He now lives on Bayou Vermilion in Lafayette, Louisiana. Currently, he is working on a series of candid photos of Cajun musicians.
Ebony DeGrace is developing her craft as a cinematographer and photographer. She considers herself a cinematic experimentalist and aspires to uplift and uphold the Black experience through conceptualized, outer-worldly visual work.
