The Prose Poem

Instructor: Nick Reading
Date:  Monday, March 16, 2020
Time:  6:30-9:30 p.m.
Location: IWC
Cost: $75 nonmembers, $48 members, $42 student members/teacher members/senior members/military members/librarian members
Walk-in registrations are welcome!

This workshop will focus not only on the prose poem as a form, but will also work to understand how our understanding of prose poems may open up possibilities in our fiction and creative nonfiction writing. We will examine the implications of Russell Edson’s assertion that prose poems are, “A poetry freed from the definition of poetry, and a prose free of the necessities of fiction.” What does this freedom on all fronts look like in poetry, prose, and in our own writing? Whether your life is poetry or prose or a little bit of both our time spent together should result in a better understanding of how language can present transformative opportunities for both the writer and the reader.

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Course Instructor:

Nick Reading is the author of Love & Sundries (Split Lip Press) and The Party In Question, winner of the Burnside Review Chapbook Contest. His work has appeared in many journals including Barrow Street, Cincinnati Review, Gulf Coast, Painted Bride Quarterly and jubilat. He serves as poetry editor for Sport Literate and lives in Indianapolis where he is currently a Visiting Lecturer at Butler University. For more, visit nickreading.com

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