GOING LONG
How does a long poem hold itself together? How do other texts turn up in ours? Where does the inside of a poem meet its outside? How do we keep going? How do we know when it’s over?
Looking to longform and serial works by Dionne Brand, Renee Gladman, Inger Christensen, Stacy Szymaszek, and others, we’ll extrude methods of inventory, grazing, bibliography, metatextuality, slipping between the textual and visual, emptying our pockets, and exceeding our containers. In our time together we’ll read, discuss, and write towards the production of a long poem.
A four-week workshop at Poets House, 2026
THE COLLECTORS
Arranged in a cabinet of curiosities or in piles of "equivocal objects introduced as bric-a-brac" (George Eliot), a collection "takes out a little bit more reality from the world than it puts back in" (Tan Lin).
How can viewers and readers of a text glean its methods and apply them ourselves? How can a text accommodate additions to its collection from its audience? How can we pick up a poem from the floor? Together, we dilettantes will dip into (and contribute to) a pool of visual and textual works by Joe Brainard and Julius Eastman.
A one-evening workshop at The Poetry Society of New York, 2025
COLLAGE AS COLLABORATIVE METHOD
with Solomon Brager
We’ll consider visual and verbal collage as a form of conversation between source, material, and assembler/s. Bring a collaborator, or start a project for someone else to finish.
A one-day workshop at Amant, 2025