Instructor: Kaveh Akbar
Date: Wednesday, June 22
Time: 6:30-9:00 p.m.
Location: IWC
Cost: $48 nonmembers, $33 members, $28 student members/teacher members/senior members/military members
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The brilliant poet Max Ritvo wrote recently that if the world outside a poet’s head is more interesting than the world inside their head, they might as well become a journalist.  His point: it’s what’s inside the poet’s mind, what (or who) is hooting or singing or moaning or gagging inside the poet’s own totally unique psychic ecosystem that allows the poet access to a singular voice. In this workshop we’ll try various methods of popping under our own hoods and exploring our cognitive machinery (using things like meditation and unconscious speaking and Rorschach tests), mining our discoveries for poetic language and imagery and more. Leaving the workshop, we’ll have generated drafts, jumping off points for new poems, and hopefully, if all goes well, better relationships with the little voices in our heads.

Kaveh Akbar founded and edits Divedapper, a home for conversations with the most vital voices in contemporary poetry. His poems appear recently or soon in POETRY, PBS NewsHour, Tin House, APR, Boston Review, Guernica, and elsewhere. His first full-length collection, Calling a Wolf a Wolf, is forthcoming with Alice James Books in 2018, and a chapbook, Portrait of the Alcoholic, will be out with Sibling Rivalry Press in early 2017. Kaveh was born in Tehran, Iran, and currently lives in Tallahassee. 

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