Event

DOUBLE LIVES 8-week poetry & fiction workshop w/ Lewis Warsh

Instructor: Lewis Warsh

This workshop takes place at Bowery Poetry Club on the following Sundays from 12PM-2PM

January 8th
January 15th
January 22nd
January 29th
February 5th
February 12th
February 19th
February 26th

We all lead double lives-- internal/external, past/present-- so part of our
exploration as poets and fiction writers will be looking at the ways to
articulate the interactions between the two. All the details of what goes in in
our various worlds-- memories, fantasies, observations, dreams,
distractions-- are the raw material for the poems and stories (or back
stories) we try to tell. Well tap into writers who work with numerous
narratives: Marguerite Duras, Renee Gladman, Ted Berrigan, Bernadette
Mayer, W.G. Sebold and Georges Perec among others. This workshop is
open to both poets and fiction writers. As much time as possible will be
spent reading and discussing our own work.

Lewis Warsh's most recent books are Alien Abduction (Ugly Duckling
Presse, 2015), One Foot Out the Door (Spuyten Duyvil, 2014), A Place in
the Sun (Spuyten Duyvil, 2010), and Inseparable: Poems 1995-2005
(Granary Books, 2008). He is editor and publisher of United Artists Books,
and teaches in the MFA program in creative writing at Long Island
University (Brooklyn). (www.lewiswarsh.com)